Example sentences of "lost in the [noun pl] [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The precise origins of the Mage Wars have been lost in the fogs of Time , but disc philosophers agree that the First Men , shortly after their creation , understandably lost their temper . |
| 2 | We have all inherited personal preferences in one shape or form by a variety of different roots ; some of those origins are clear , others of them are lost in the entanglements of time and circumstance . |
| 3 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 4 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 5 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 6 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 7 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |