Example sentences of "in [adj] times [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 2 | In medieval times you would have been a Sanguine , Melancholy , Choleric or Phlegmatic type . |
| 3 | In medieval times it was one of the largest in England . |
| 4 | Yet in medieval times it was an abundant bird , a useful scavenger in the streets of towns . |
| 5 | In medieval times it was merely an alternative to the already existing Great Northern Road . |
| 6 | In Roman times there is little doubt that guilds and other bodies would have carried their offerings in procession behind the images of the gods . |
| 7 | The site is very exposed on that side , in Roman times there was a woodland there , so it was sheltered . |
| 8 | In Roman times it became the capital city of the province of Asia and the principal port for all of south-west Anatolia . |
| 9 | ‘ In Victorian times they used to be about 35 inches wide ; now they can be as narrow as 30 inches . |
| 10 | Now in Victorian times they were kept as pets and just like hamsters are today and there are still one or two around that er might just give you that impression but I may be really off the , the level here . |
| 11 | In Victorian times they were very common , and often found in the nursery . |
| 12 | The cave has long been known ; one inscription bears the date 1655 , and in Victorian times it was a showplace , a charge for admission being payable at Braida Garth farm down the valley . |
| 13 | In Victorian times there was a flourishing ‘ marble ’ works here , of which only the site remains ; it engaged in the cutting , dressing and polishing of dark grey limestone won from nearby quarries to produce an appearance of marble , but which was made even more attractive by the presence of fossil patterns in the stone . |
| 14 | Even in Victorian times there were relatively few people named Moses . |
| 15 | Wherever jade was used in early times it was derived from alluvial sources . |
| 16 | The origins of Osiris are shrouded in mystery but in early times he was a fertility god , whose death and rebirth were connected with the cycle of the agricultural year . |
| 17 | Once in nineteen times your opponent will get the first pair correct , so you will only win nine to one , but the main point is that , as soon as you begin your turn , you play faultlessly . |
| 18 | In these times it is important to follow things through . |
| 19 | He was probably thinking that in these times it was not worth taking the risk of offending anyone , just in case they were agents of Horemheb and you ended up in an emerald mine on the Eastern Coast . |
| 20 | But we can scarcely doubt , for all that , that Elizabeth must have gone to her death not a little exhausted by the duties of a wife and mother in hard times which found out the slightest weakness in every individual 's constitution . |
| 21 | In Caria in later times there was a Zeus Labrandeus , who was a god wielding a double-axe . |
| 22 | In later times it was briefly occupied by Cromwell and by Bonnie Prince Charlie during the Rebellion of 1745 . |
| 23 | Amber has always been used predominantly for jewellery , but in later times it also served to meet a variety of personal needs such as smoking gear , rosaries and worry beads . |
| 24 | In the light of this fact it seems possible to suggest that those authors who subscribe to the former view do so because in later times it would have been only in the rarest of circumstances that one would have held the kadilik after the kazaskerlik . |
| 25 | In pre-railway times there is no record of a pub , so it seems some entrepreneur witnessed passengers standing on this blasted corner and decided he could profitably offer them shelter and spirits . |
| 26 | In post-Vedic times they became : |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | In pre-revolution times it was known as Tsarskoye Selo , which is ‘ Royal Village ’ in Russian . |
| 29 | In ancient times there was none of this cultivated order about the Delta : it was a wilderness of undrained marshes , just the kind of primeval watery wastes from which the ancient Egyptians believed the world first emerged . |
| 30 | The name is somewhat misleading , since in ancient times it seems likely that the division of life into ‘ sacred ’ and ‘ secular ’ had no meaning : the whole of life was considered sacred , as were artistic and other creations . |