Example sentences of "[vb past] the [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounting economic problems in Japan and Germany , and the London property crisis , could mean that economic revival will be long deferred ; a party whose record made the Financial Times refuse to back it is going to have its work cut out to keep in control . |
| 2 | Their campaign reflected the uncertainties and weakness that led the Financial Times to back Labour . |
| 3 | Mrs Theresa Briscoe , a widow with a farm within 500 yards of the mine told the Irish Times that since the mine opened she had lost four horses and some fifty cattle and sheep to lead poisoning . |
| 4 | The director of elections for SFWP , Gerry Doherty , told the Irish Times that a mining company representative told him the donation was made ‘ to help safeguard democracy and stop tyranny setting in ’ . |
| 5 | That mining might mean the end of the road for the town , with a population of some 6,000 people , did not unduly worry the man from the Department of Economic Development — Northern Ireland ( DEDNI ) , Ivor Greene , who told the Irish Times ‘ If it was decided that the time was proper for mining to proceed , Ballymoney could disappear but the people would be well compensated if it came to that ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , it 'll definitely be this Tuesday , ’ he told The Scotsman but then told the Irish Times it would be 1 April . |
| 7 | When he arrived at the BBC as deputy Director-General in 1987 , John Birt even told the Financial Times that he found the place ‘ crudely , thoughtlessly anti-Establishment . ’ |
| 8 | The petrochemical industry 's current and immediate future state is a ‘ classic example of the good , the bad and the ugly ’ , Doug Campbell , deputy chief executive of BP Chemicals , told the Financial Times petrochemicals conference in London recently . |
| 9 | Companies told the Financial Times that ‘ much of the opposition to their plans is ill-informed and orchestrated by outsiders . |
| 10 | By the sixteenth century mining operations had become closely regulated by the clock according to Agricola ( Georg Bauer ) , who in his De re metallica , of 1555 , noted the precise times of shifts . |
| 11 | I stood looking at the pools of water lying on the pitch , the door of the directors ' Portakabin swinging back and forth on its one remaining hinge , and I recalled the good times , remembered the bad . |
| 12 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 13 | I even enjoyed the bad times in retrospect . |
| 14 | Mr Johnson told the court it landed the Financial Times with a phone bill of £705 . |
| 15 | ‘ Politely but comprehensively ’ , recorded the Financial Times , Signor Ornelli Prandini , the Communist President of LEGA dismissed the British way of doing things : ‘ I do n't agree at all . |
| 16 | It 's not four because you counted up , you counted the three times table |
| 17 | JUST when they thought the good times were coming to an end , Japanese building firms are being given a batch of orders for huge infrastructure projects . |
| 18 | When they bought The Financial Times in 1957 , the Pearsons started to expand further into media . |
| 19 | " Why did the wonderful times stop ? " asked Sara . |
| 20 | Constance remembered the many times she had seen her mother and him alone together either in the village street or at home ; she had been uneasily aware of their absorption in each other . |
| 21 | ‘ It is of course a hotch-potch of good and bad ’ said the Musical Times in 1930 , admitting that it also was nevertheless ‘ the hit of the season ’ . |