Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three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 . |
| 2 | Thus two years ago , when Ministry of Education planners introduced a more practical and less theoretical maths programme in technical schools , several teachers who had been trained in Portugal in colonial times complained that by dropping square-root calculations from the course , the ministry was reducing the ‘ quality ’ of education . |
| 3 | For eastern Europe , 1922 was a traumatic year — money prices were multiplying rapidly ; in Austria by 14,000 times ; in Hungary by 23,000 times ; in Poland by 2 million times ; in Russia by 400 million times and in Germany , by one thousand million times . |
| 4 | She 's going to Russia for a week in February of all times and we want to have something really warm . |
| 5 | Must be young and presentable with attractive personality … some travel and domestic duties , ’ read the ad that ran in January in Gay Times . |
| 6 | The King of England in ancient times , he figures in fairy legends as follows : a mysterious creature covered in hair and cloven-hoofed , paid a visit to King Herla on the occasion of his marriage and showered him with many marvellous gifts . |
| 7 | The use of nicknames to identify individuals arose in England in Anglo-Saxon times ( at the latest ) — there are the cases of Harold Bluetooth , Svegn Forkbeard , Eadmund Ironside , all highlighting personal characteristics of men with common names . |
| 8 | In the first century A.D. Pliny wrote that it was discovered in Spain in the previous century , where it was used to spice drinks , and in England in mediaeval times it was known as " sops-in-wine " , being mixed with wine and ale as a substitute for the costly cloves from the Far East . |
| 9 | Anderson in " Scotland in Pagan Times " tells of 36 gold annular armlets , all melted except one , which were found at Coull . |
| 10 | In Caria in later times there was a Zeus Labrandeus , who was a god wielding a double-axe . |
| 11 | Now , however , the book has attracted attention for another reason : it is just about the only book on art to have appeared in Russia in recent times . |
| 12 | June 1941 was the second devastating German invasion of Russia in recent times and it was understandable that Moscow wished to create a buffer zone between itself and Germany . |
| 13 | The heroic lay had been the fare of royal and princely halls in earlier centuries ; and traces of these , as they survived in Iceland in later times , can still be found in the poetic Edda . |
| 14 | white belly distinguishing from both Dunlin and larger Knot ; more conspicuous white wing-bar separates from Dunlin at all times . |
| 15 | Enlightened dry-fly anglers , too , have already been taking some tremendous catches with it and it will surely prove devastating for dapping , the earliest form of fly fishing , a method still used extensively in Ireland at certain times of year . |
| 16 | It is almost as if we are confronted here by a replication of the poor Tom described in Ackroyd 's novel by another poor Tom of later times . |
| 17 | The importance of this ( literal ) step is emphasized rhetorically by Dickens in Hard Times ( 1854 ) : |
| 18 | ‘ It was the Capitol in ancient times , and the smallest of the seven hills of Rome . |
| 19 | The wonderful figure in fig. 125 may be Iamos , legendary ancestor of the Iamids , prophets at Olympia in historical times . |
| 20 | It is suggested that the decline of the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher in recent times has left the individual injured by the activities of our industrial society without adequate protection . |
| 21 | Several horses are said to have been buried there , standing up , at the request of the eccentric vicar whose family had the house built in School Lane in Edwardian times . |
| 22 | At least another four witnesses placed Drew in or about Cross Street at varying times on the fateful Saturday afternoon . |
| 23 | The bulk of his lands had been given to Gilbert de Clare and , under the terms of the Dictum of Kenilworth , had to be repurchased by Fitzjohn at five times their annual value . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Gradgrind in Hard Times embodies the spirit of industrial capitalism as Dickens saw it . |
| 25 | Few truly large stations were built in China until modern times , when the Russians assisted in the building of a vast new station in Peking . |
| 26 | To judge from the numerous clay copies of human skulls , plastered with clay and having cowrie shells in place of eyes , from the Sepik River , a similar practice obtained in New Guinea in recent times . |
| 27 | Without discounting the possibility that sources may yet be found in the mountains of China , present indications are that jade was already reaching China in Neolithic times by the route followed during the Bronze Age and down to the time of Sir Aurel Stein 's travels in inner Asia at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries . |
| 28 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |
| 29 | The ‘ Christ against culture ’ position was adopted by Tertullian in the fourth century and Tolstoy in recent times . |
| 30 | They were first brought to England by explorers like Sir Francis Drake and Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabethan times . |