Example sentences of "until the seventeenth [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This problem dominated philosophy from Plato until the seventeenth century . |
| 2 | Out of his manors , William chose to reside at Hammoon , and his descendants certainly lived here until the seventeenth century . |
| 3 | Until the seventeenth century , children were seen as miniature adults . |
| 4 | Centaurus almost surrounds the Cross , and until the seventeenth century the Cross was not even classed as a separate constellation . |
| 5 | So successfully indeed did the Bishops of Saintes oppose the claims of their rival that it was not until the seventeenth century that La Rochelle was allowed to have a cathedral of its own . |
| 6 | Until the seventeenth century the courts would declare Acts of Parliament void if they considered them contrary to natural law , repugnant to the law or impossible to be performed . |
| 7 | The mill was used for grinding corn until the seventeenth century . |
| 8 | Scarborough remained a prosperous if small town until the seventeenth century when , after the discovery of medicinal springs , it became a fashionable spa . |
| 9 | The Byzantine style dominated important building , particularly in the ecclesiastical field , until the seventeenth century ( see Volume I , p. 140 ) . |
| 10 | After the sack of the city in 1239 the cathedral fell into decay until the seventeenth century , but even in this ruinous state greatly impressed travellers of the period . |
| 11 | Until the seventeenth century many , even most , European frontiers were very vague , zones in which the claims and jurisdictions of different rulers and their subjects overlapped and intersected in a complex and confusing way . |