Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [art] winter " in BNC.
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| 1 | They used to go swimming and walks in the winter , have their friends in for tea |
| 2 | Though it was much less grand , it reminded her of what her mistress had called ‘ the doll 's house ’ , that little house they had rented for six months in the winter of '48 in the Piazza Pitti . |
| 3 | The preference for polling has increased from about 50 per cent 60 years ago to about 95 per cent today , presumably by selection to suit management systems in which the cattle are housed for as much as eight months in the winter . |
| 4 | To the left is Tramezaïgues , a hamlet said because of its position on a northern slope to get no sun at all for three months in the winter and from where a very bad road leads up through the pine forests to the Hospice de Rioumajou , and one of the numerous old mule tracks into Spain . |
| 5 | The guests ' lounge is comfortable , with a wood-burning stove used for cooking chestnuts in the winter . |
| 6 | In Madrid , intolerable in the heats of summer , sentries froze at their posts in the winter . |
| 7 | Meeting new people , getting to other countries in the winter . |
| 8 | BEING THRIFTY Some of the ways in which you can be thrifty with food will be covered in the next chapter and energy management discussed in Chapter 3 , should make a significant difference to your heating bills in the winter . |
| 9 | I did n't like that because it was less than half and all the bills came out of my wages — £100 electricity bills in the winter for the central heating , £5 gas and £7 a week for other bills . |
| 10 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 11 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 12 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 13 | In the space of only a few weeks in the winter of 1862 Punch carried more than a dozen cartoons and a score of witty articles , fake court reports and novelty songs — including a seasonable Christmas Carol . |
| 14 | He spent ten weeks in the winter of 1899–1900 with the British North Borneo Company police force as a sub-commandant , in operations against Mohammed Salleh , before rejoining his regiment in South Africa in 1900 . |
| 15 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 16 | We had observed that older people in the area seemed to die like flies in the winter from heart attacks and cold-related illnesses and we were confident that it was the inside of our houses that were killing them , not the outside . |
| 17 | During the general cessation of hostilities in the winter that followed , Oliver Cromwell managed to persuade Parliament to the reorganization of the Army , with Sir Thomas Fairfax as the Commander-in-Chief . |
| 18 | An inn , mine host , stories in the winter evenings , fishing in the summer , introducing some of the scientific ideas of farming which he himself had heard of but was sure had not penetrated the ancient little world of this valley … |
| 19 | In truth , as testimonies from both sides bear witness , the combatants felt that the outcome of the conflict was irreversibly decided in favour of the Nationalists in the winter of 1937 – 38 , when Franco 's forces gained control of the town of Teruel , in southern Aragón , and were thus poised to launch an offensive on Catalonia and Valencia . |
| 20 | Sometimes groups of women would leave the village and climb the surrounding hillsides , cutting bundles of grass to feed to the cattle in the winter . |
| 21 | Oh , I remember them , though Louise , the cold , blue hands of the dancers in the winter , their poor fragile necks and thin legs ! |
| 22 | Two manuscripts , containing poems and the prose Centuries , were purchased by W. T. Brooke for a few pence from two London book-barrows in the winter of 1896–7 , and were identified as Traherne 's by Bertram Dobell [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Reading was and is one of his absorbing pleasures and on the bookshelves in the winter of 1971 and 1972 were : The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp , Shakespeare , Jules Feiffer 's Harry the Rat with Women , The Primal Scream , a selection of Hermann Hesse , Edgar Cayce on Reincarnation and The Group Sex Tapes . |
| 24 | The authorities provided neither fire nor blankets in the winter , and gave prisoners no food other than the regular allowance of a half-quartern loaf for two days and water , with maybe a little tea . |
| 25 | This section permits sports clubs to have alternative permitted hours in the winter where the sport is played out of doors . |
| 26 | I know , for instance , that I am Marie Romanov , struggling through snowdrifts in the Winter Palace in Petersburg , and finding the gold clock still ticking at her bedside . |
| 27 | The catarrhal symptoms may alternate with joint symptoms and rheumatic pains in the winter . |
| 28 | Even today , decades after I saw my first such microscope slide , I still think them extravagantly beautiful and can easily get lost in contemplation of the cellular thicket the microscope reveals , made the more intriguing by the curious , almost three-dimensional effect the stain gives ; as it brings into vision only a few of the total population of the neurons present , the cells seem to stand out like trees in a winter mist ( Figure 10.6 ) . |
| 29 | Commitment to the war also determined the Unionist response to Lloyd George 's disputes with the generals in the winter of 1917–18 . |
| 30 | The liquorice fields of Pontefract , exotic as a blaze of opium poppies , meant fresh , juicy roots to chew in springtime and little , round , black pancakes in the winter . |