How To Use Wessex In A Sentence
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I was not a pioneer of part time senior registrar training in Wessex: several people were already in post.
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It is somewhat ironic that the last great monument of the house of Wessex was mainly a product of Norman culture.
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In 875, Alfred went to sea with a small naval force and on the south coast of Wessex met 7 Viking longships and defeated them.
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The plunky Wessexians winning a ferocious match under their manager Alfred against the dirty, cheating, fouling--one might almost say "pagan"--Danes led by their boss Guthrum.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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The day before Ælfred was expected two riders came down the clay road through Kilton, bearing each the banner of the King of Wessex.
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Groups of round burial mounds known to archaeologists as barrow cemeteries, often aligned on contours below ridges, are common in Wessex and the Thames valley.
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Wessex replaced the sigil within the drawer, beside another ring.
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The Countess of Wessex had a 'Bolly' good time when she officially opened The Avenue Centre and School in Tilehurst yesterday.
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Aethelred accepted the overlordship of Alfred and demoted himself from cyning (king) to ealdorman ( earl), but in return had the security of connection to the Wessex royal family.
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A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
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Hardy's Wessex volumes, which are uniform, do include one or two first editions.
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GENeco, a subsidiary of Wessex Water , a British utility company, uses heat.
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The deposition of Palaeogene siliciclastic shelf strata in the Wessex Basin cannot be interpreted exclusively in terms of fluctuations in relative sea level.
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The English were in the overall command of Charles, Lord Cornwallis, a gentleman from Wessex.
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The ruins of the Cistercian Church which once graced this shore and raised above the trees its lighthouse tower, a seamark by day and a beacon by night, are among the loveliest in Wessex.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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The plan is that one day the Wilts and Berks canal will allow boats to cruise what is known as the Wessex Waterway Network.
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The Jutes settled in Kent, the Saxons in Essex, Sussex, Middlesex and Wessex, and the Angles everywhere else.
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A spokeswoman for Wessex Water said there was no choice but to pump diluted sewage into rivers.
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Leaving Wessex, the Danes settled to the north, in an area known as "Danelaw.
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The kingdoms of the heptarchy, or octarchy, had been united under the dominion of Egbert, the King of Wessex, in the year 827, and thus formed the kingdom of
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John also played the euphonium and the tuba with the Wiltshire Constabulary's band and the Wessex Wind Band.
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Wessex Hygiene, the new acquisition is now part of the Bristol Hygiene branch.
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Colin saw human bone and Beaker sherds and called Wessex Archaeology: a team was on site that afternoon.
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The earl and countess arrived in Devizes from two earlier engagements in Wiltshire, a visit to the Wessex MS Therapy Centre in Warminster and another engagement in Westbury.
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Parts of the area were fenced off for weeks while Wessex Water laid the main.
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The old plunge pool came to light when the Wessex Archaeology team was excavating what was believed to be a hidden boathouse where the edge of the lake had been.
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Wessex's two other footballing figures of grandeur left the madding crowds behind to return to their native heath and hearths.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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St. Boniface asked for the help of the Wimborne sisterhood to carry on his missionary labours among the benighted tribes of Germany, and several establishments in the marshes and woodlands along the shore of the Baltic Sea were the daughter houses of this mid-Wessex abbey.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter
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People living in Wessex Gardens fear the school building proposed for an elevated position on a tall embankment will totally overwhelm them.
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It is somewhat ironic that the last great monument of the house of Wessex was mainly a product of Norman culture.
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Whoever tries to visualize any scene out of the Wessex Novels will be forced to see the figures of the persons concerned "silhouetted" against a formidable skyline.
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Count Baldwin I of Flanders eloped with Judith, daughter of King Charles the Bald of the west Franks, who was by the age of 16 the widow of two kings of Wessex.
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After flying for 38 years, their Wessex helicopter is about to be pensioned off.
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That of the Wessex Basin in southern England accumulated in the northwestern reaches of the Anglo-Paris Basin, an epicontinental sea formed at the junction of the Tethyan, Boreal and Atlantic realms.
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He noted the incidence of barrows reused as Saxon cemeteries and other Saxon burials on or near parish boundaries in Wessex.
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From nearly 50 years of complex warfare the house of Wessex had emerged triumphant.
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The last act of the witenagemot in England was to choose Harold, Earl of Wessex, as King in 1066, a fatal choice.
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Tenth-century kings of Wessex / England were determined serial monogamists, seeking politically strategic matches with daughters of eldermen.
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The prince - who is also titled the Earl of Wessex - was given a tour of the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, which is currently staging its first production after a two-year £15. 3 million refurbishment.
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In much of England the hide was reckoned as of 120 acres, in Wessex generally as of 40 or 48.
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Within the Wessex Formation there are two beds of potential stratigraphic significance.
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Romantics can box up the Wessex league clubs into a neat little eightsome reel – Plymouth, Torquay, Exeter and Bournemouth along the coast, Yeovil in the middle and, to the north, Swindon and the two Bristols.
Epic tales of the Wessex footballing crowd | Frank Keating
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After nine years of brigandage, he turned back to Wessex and began to ‘contend for the kingdom.’
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His position once secured (which took some years), his conduct in all the kingdoms except Northumbria and Wessex seems to have been more that of a direct ruler than a remote overlord.
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The winterbournes were flowing from the chalk uplands of Wessex.
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Wessex Hygiene, the new acquisition is now part of the Bristol Hygiene branch.
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Wessex Windpower is expected to submit a planning application within the next few months to build anemometry masts to measure wind speeds and direction in the borough.
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A new monthly magazine Wessex Architect was launched and used to promote a wide range of events.
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The wyvern was the emblem of the rulers of Wessex and the word "wyvern" is associated with the many areas of Wessex, reflected in many county and town heraldries of the South West and west of England.
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The Danes have left Wessex, and have set up in Lundenwic, and have sworn on their most sacred talismans to leave us.
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The Earl and Countess of Wessex are also expected today and tomorrow, while the Princess Royal is due at York Racecourse on Thursday and Friday.
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Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and Queen Sonja of Norway were accompanied by Grand Duke Henri of Luxembourg and the Earl of Wessex.
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The witenagemot chose Harold, earl of Wessex, although his only claim to the throne was his availability.
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The Duxford enclosure stood at a significant point in the landscape, overlooking the point where the Icknield Way - the major trackway from Wessex to East Anglia - crosses the River Cam.
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The news is that a controversial little coelurosaur from the Isle of Wight’s Wessex Formation, Calamosaurus foxi (known only from two cervical vertebrae, one of them incomplete), is so similar to the cervical vertebrae of Dilong that I am confident that it too should be identified as a basal tyrannosauroid.
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Or isnt a Westland Wessex with pintle mounted GPMGs aeither a "helicopter" or a "gunship" in your book?
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A preliminary account of a new tyrannosauroid theropod from the Wessex Formation (Early Cretaceous) of southern England.
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A golden wyvern was featured on the flag of King Harold (Goodwinson/ Godewineson) of Wessex and is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry.
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And for this reason also, for this reason, in the last resort, only, we call the saddest and in some ways the least successful of the Wessex kings by the title of Alfred the Great.
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He sailed up the Exe, burning and plundering the villages on its banks, and for four years his army marched in every direction across Wessex, and was at length induced to withdraw on being paid a _wergeld_ (war tax) which was first levied on Exeter.
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The absorption of the Danelaw by Wessex left the Celtic fringe in Scotland and Wales independent under a vague kind of vassalage to the king.
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Wessex Water spokesman Ian Martin said the smell had been coming from sewers and road gulleys in the village.
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This Club was of an inclusive and intersocial character; to a degree, indeed, remarkable for the part of England in which it had its being -- dear, delightful Wessex, whose statuesque dynasties are even now only just beginning to feel the shaking of the new and strange spirit without, like that which entered the lonely valley of Ezekiel's vision and made the dry bones move: where the honest squires, tradesmen, parsons, clerks, and people still praise the Lord with one voice for His best of all possible worlds.
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