Sentences with phrase «mostly sheep farmers»

The tutor, Mr. Trigg, spent a year or two at a time with English and Scottish settlers, mostly sheep farmers, and hated teaching as much as children in the wild hated being taught.

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Although English life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their living off the land, either as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or herders (mostly sheep and goats).

Black, red, tri-color or mostly white; long - coated, medium - coated, or short - coated; 25 pounds or 55 pounds, he is an obsessive - compulsive worker of immeasurable value to the sheep farmer.