Preposition: of

• inch: All lines on the board are indented slightly - perhaps a sixteenth of an inch.

• series: Clicking on Canals No 16 - The sixteenth of a regular series of articles on waterways on the internet.

Adjective modifier

• late: This wall was found in 1900 to be covered on either side with late sixteenth or early seventeenth-century paintings.

Modifies a noun

• century: In the late sixteenth century, a fair was held on f Leonard.

• birthday: Alfie gives Brett a present for his sixteenth birthday which he really loves.

• verse: It can all be summed up in the sixteenth verse of that second chapter of the Song of Solomon.

• president: Biography of Abraham Lincoln Biography of Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth President of the United States ( 1861-1865 ).

• edition: The College still holds a string of early sixteenth century editions, most from the Aldine press, which were given by Fox.

• note: Secondly, the Follow Action Time has been lowered to one sixteenth note.

Preposition: in

• series: This will be the sixteenth in a series of annual lectures.