Example sentences of "sort of [noun] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.

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1 They 're just sort of relics of a time when people experimented with shapes and tried all kinds of different things ; these days instrument makers seem to have settled on making everything the same .
2 Eadui Basan , a well-known Canterbury scribe who worked on several surviving de luxe manuscripts , forged S 914 , which purports to be a refoundation of the monastic community by Æthelred , possibly as some sort of safeguard at a time when Cnut was trying to force upon them , in his royal priest Eadsige , a non-monastic archbishop .
3 ‘ You 'll be quite a good sort of person by the time you return from the Future , supposing you do return , of course , because I did n't like the sound of that spell , did you ?
4 Alan Rothwell , who played another post office clerk in the film and soon afterwards became known on TV as David Barlow in Coronation Street , remembered Crawford as ‘ a good mate and good fun ’ , adding , ‘ We were both on a sort of level at the time .
5 They were constrained by s I mean like what they wanted to do was constrained by the practical sort of necessities of the time and even if they had wanted to have a more vigorous policy of land reform
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