Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | The section has serviced these contracts through good times and bad — remember the stock market crash in 1987 ? |
| 2 | And she had laid in Greek brandy and pink champagne for old times ' sake . |
| 3 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 4 | In the former Bilbo acts as the link between modern times and the archaic world of dwarves and dragons . |
| 5 | ‘ But where did you get that bit about Gay Times calling me ‘ the most gorgeous man in British football ’ ? ’ |
| 6 | He made films like Sanders of the River ( 1935 ) and The Four Feathers ( 1939 ) , featuring courageous British aristocrats going off to fight for the British empire , not out of a sentimental admiration for those times , but because the Empire provided good stories , as Hollywood also found at the time . |
| 7 | Then Protagoras went further in saying that ‘ man is the measure of things ’ , a saying that has become a secular creed for modern times . |
| 8 | So users could avoid contacting their GP during such times of crisis because these drugs were easily obtainable . |
| 9 | Americans have less patience for bad times . |
| 10 | And with a superior points difference , Vipers seem set to clinch promotion from Midlands Two West after three times finishing runners-up . |
| 11 | Freed from restrictions about who to lend to or how much to pay to depositors , and freed from the responsibility of supporting their corporate clients through thin times , American and British commercial banks are weaker than at any time in the past 50 years . |
| 12 | Lapis lazuli evidently reached Egypt along with other Asiatic influences during Predynastic times . |
| 13 | If the wretched woman had n't taken herself off to war work in a factory canteen for three times the money , or so she had said . |
| 14 | Obviously it is worth keeping watch over the pond during these times to ensure that the fish do not become stuck . |
| 15 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 16 | Members of the sample had consulted their general practitioners a mean of 7.0 times ( range 4–15 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ We clergy , ’ said the Reverend Pat Tilley grandly , ‘ get called on and out at all sorts of odd times . |
| 18 | The songs of ancient times remind them of what they lost and there is a savage hatred in their hearts towards the Dark Elves of Naggaroth . |
| 19 | The Doctor was preoccupied , thinking of old times . |
| 20 | The service has been the victim of organisational reforms in 1974 and 1982 , which reflected the conventional wisdom in the administrative thinking of those times . |
| 21 | Richard Feynman , said to be the greatest theoretical physicist of modern times , stated that no-one understands quantum mechanics . |
| 22 | Lizzie was the daughter of a very famous mother , the late Jeannie Robertson , who after her ‘ discovery ’ in 1953 was acclaimed internationally as the outstanding ballad-singer of modern times . |
| 23 | Freud , in Civilization and its Discontents , advanced the profoundly historicist suggestion that we should be cautious about interpreting the miseries of earlier times , since what now looks like unacceptable suffering may have felt less so in a different culture . |
| 24 | That light travels at the speed of five times around the earth in the time it takes to say rice pudding is indeed an amazing matter . |
| 25 | With all the technological genius that can be raised in the USA to produce a B-1 supersonic bomber , they had to settle for a cruising speed of 1.25 times the speed of sound while the routine Concorde bus service across the Atlantic ticks over steadily at fully twice the speed of sound — and anyone who can afford to buy a ticket can experience it . |
| 26 | It 's just that I have such happy pictures in my mind of those times that pipes will always have nice associations for me . |
| 27 | She is the person who runs the home , and in this her position is the same as that of the peasants and craftsmen of former times — for her , too , work and life merge into one another . |
| 28 | John 's face seemed to come alive and his spirit escaped the prison of the photograph releasing brief images of happy times ; John dancing along the pavement , John tilting his head back to exhale smoke from a cigarette , John talking to a cuddly toy in a supermarket and making me laugh . |
| 29 | The portraits of Presley , clad in the regal fineries of ancient times . |
| 30 | There 's little point either in conjecturing as to whether this is the best England side of recent times . |