Example sentences of "were [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suffered dreadfully from hay fever , and many were the times — such as when we picnicked on Ivinghoe Beacon — she would have benefited from emulating Alan Turing who was said to cycle to work wearing an army gas-mask to protect himself from the pollen . |
| 2 | And many were the times when she had wanted to bawl at him , ‘ And who was to blame for that ? |
| 3 | Such were the times , and what was more I was a man with a foreign passport and working in an embassy , and that made it much harder for me to collect . |
| 4 | I do think that the struggle for national liberation , certainly in my country at the times when we were most successful in that struggle , were the times when more opportunities were opened up for my own liberation and my own freedom of choice as a woman . |
| 5 | They added that dawn and dusk were the times sharks were especially likely to attack . |
| 6 | Many were the times when he had his knuckles rapped sharply for meddling in politics or foreign policy . |
| 7 | In radionuclide transite the calculated indices were the time when 5% and 90% of the radionuclide dose appeared in the stomach , emptying time of the distal oesophageal third to 25% activity value , mean transit time , and residual activity in the distal fluid . |
| 8 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 9 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 10 | But the sixties were a time for breaking rules , transgressing limits . |
| 11 | Quiet , steady and composed , Gavin was an ideal partner for skipper Jim Cannon at the heart of the Palace defence and , if the early '80s were a time when our back four was often under a lot of pressure , Gavin played his part in Palace 's revival at the end of the decade although , in spite of skippering our successful 1988–89 side for a few matches mid-season , he incurred yet another injury and was prevented from playing in all but the final three games . |
| 12 | If the 1920s were a time of depression , the 1930s were not that much better , and morale amongst deaf people was still at an all-time low . |
| 13 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 14 | The early and mid-seventies were a time of ‘ no warning ’ bombs and sectarian killings were escalating . |
| 15 | If there were a time clock for murder , it would show one every twenty-six minutes . |
| 16 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 17 | The early 1870s were a time of prosperity for the trade , and the ETS felt sufficiently confident to present a memorial to the employers in 1871 asking for a further reduction to fifty-one hours . |
| 18 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 19 | It can not be entirely coincidental that these years were a time of important new developments in both the Church and the Mercian kingdom . |
| 20 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 21 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 22 | The 1930s were a time of religious upheaval on the sub continent and Corporal Selwyn and his fellow Glosters were put on riot control duties in India and Burma . |