Seventeen kinds of wet fish, choice all over, pretty girls lining up to shake his hand – and, outside, Vicky Morgan asked a potentially awkward question about the services, as her husband is in the RAF and is paid, frankly, rubbish.
Seventeen young people lived at the residential school where I was based, aged between five and 35.
("Seventeen copies sold, of which 11 at trade price to free circulating libraries beyond the seas. Getting known," says Krapp in the play bearing his name some two decades later, finely balancing sarcasm and delusion).
Seventeen years before her death, she suffered breast cancer.
Seventeen of the 25 most important Islamic State leaders now running the war in Iraq and Syria spent time in US prisons As Isis activity ebbed in Iraq, he had become increasingly obsessed with two meetings that had taken place in Syria early in 2009, which brought together Iraqi jihadists, Syrian officials and Ba'athists from both countries.
"There were seventeen of us who came down in that first minibus, the first trip that we came down," he said.
Seventeen years Anderson's senior, Totti certainly could not keep up with his opponent in a footrace but what he lacks in speed he makes up with impeccable timing.
Seventeen years ago, in the House of Commons, Major said it would "turn my stomach" to talk to the likes of Gerry Adams.
Seventeen months' time and they're locked and loaded again.
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