Crofts Sentence Examples

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  • Although there are some good arable farms in favoured districts, the vast majority of holdings are small crofts occupied mostly by peasants who combine fishing with farming.

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  • The size of the crofts varies greatly.

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  • Until the Restoration he was placed under the care, first of Lord Crofts, by whose name he was known, and then of the queen-dowager, receiving his education to the age of nine from Roman Catholics, but thenceforward from Protestant tutors.

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  • Amending statutes of succeeding years added to the commissioners' powers of fixing fair rents and cancelling arrears, the power of enlarging crofts and common grazings.

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  • The landowners found thousands of the crofts on which their villeins had been wont to dwell vacant, and could not fill them with new tenants.

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  • Crofts added a fourth very shortly after when the keeper made another blooper, dropping a catch at the marksman's feet.

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  • Despite promising signs in the Gully, the nearby crofts were not exactly brimming with migrants.

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  • He also carried on business as a tallow chandler, his premises extending from High street to the High House Inn in the Crofts.

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  • In some cases even the newly created crofts were cleared.

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  • Many families in Ireland lived on small crofts growing their own food, largely at subsistence level.

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  • Some ridge and furrow appears to occupy old crofts.

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  • The Bill will allow new crofts to be created in or next to existing woodlands on the national forest estate.

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  • Creating woodland crofts Communities wishing to create woodland crofts would bid to buy national forest land under the National Forest Land Scheme.

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  • There is an old path (not on my map) for 2 km to lush alluvial pastures where two stone crofts once stood.

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  • Many of our crofts have traditional rights to collect seaweed from the shore.

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  • Sample stones taken from these crofts will be incorporated in the floor of the dry stane dyking area near the church.

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