British Isles Definition

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A group of islands off the northwest coast of mainland Europe, comprising Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Wight, the Isles of Scilly, the Isle of Man, the Outer Hebrides, the Inner Hebrides, the Orkney Islands, the Shetland Islands and many other smaller islands. Use may include the Channel Islands, although these are physically closer to mainland Europe.

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  • As a consequence, the extent of land devoted to wheat in the British Isles receded in 1895 to less than i 2 million acres.

  • Small islands off the coast of north-west Spain, the headlands of that same coast, the Scillies, Cornwall, the British Isles as a whole, have all in turn been suggested.

  • Holmes, Ancient Britain (1907), appendix, identifies the Cassiterides with the British Isles.

  • In the British Isles wheat is, as a rule, sown in the autumn on a heavier soil, and has four or five months in which to distribute its roots, and so it gets possession of a wide range of soil and subsoil before barley is sown in the spring.

  • The last part of Bruce's life, from 1315 to 1329, began with an attempt which was the most striking testimony that could have been given to the effect of Bannockburn, and which, had it succeeded, might have altered the future of the British Isles.

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Words Starting With

BBRBRI

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SESLES

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British Isles

Words Starting With B and Ending With S

Starts With B & Ends With SStarts With BR & Ends With SStarts With B & Ends With ES

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13 Letter Words13 Letter Words Starting With B13 Letter Words Ending With S