Example sentences of "in the mists of time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late . |
| 2 | With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book . |
| 3 | Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time . |
| 4 | Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew . |
| 5 | The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time . |
| 6 | The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail . |
| 7 | Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time . |
| 8 | What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem . |
| 9 | He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used . |
| 10 | ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time . |
| 11 | Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’ |