Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | A view held by many organisers of such promotions is that the consumer , in economically difficult times , is more likely to be attracted by the opportunity to save money than by incidental free offers or competitions . |
| 2 | Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally . |
| 3 | Historians are rarely able to get to the truth of the matter in this way , but family stories often suggest that drunkenness was the reason for an otherwise inexplicable decline , not just in the Tudor and Stuart era but in much later times . |
| 4 | ‘ It was prepared in much happier times , ’ he explained . |
| 5 | Labyrinths of this type have been found inscribed on tombs in Egypt dating to 3400BC , and the same design occurs on the Cretan coins of the Minoan period , though it may have originated in much earlier times . |
| 6 | He took Pask 's conservative philosophy even further by stressing that even in less strained times Britain should not pioneer technology , but should let America develop experience and then copy the designs . |
| 7 | In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually . |
| 8 | He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction . |
| 9 | His old one was stolen by the Czech secret police in less happy times . |
| 10 | Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing . |
| 11 | Of course we live in less barbarous times . |
| 12 | In less demanding times , it is often argued , they should be capable of making healthy returns . |
| 13 | For certain there will be changes , but it is doubtful if there will ever be such a long line of devoted , generous and hardworking people as those who served the Club so enthusiastically in immensely difficult times , and saved it from certain closure for the likes of ourselves to enjoy . |
| 14 | In more recent times the behaviour of British governments has been more restrained and more sophisticated , but their instincts and suspicions remain . |
| 15 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 16 | Since humans first developed methods of catching fish , the occasional dolphin or porpoise has probably fallen unwitting victim to net , hook , or in more recent times , trawl net . |
| 17 | Ancient history is scarce around these parts , and you take it where you can get it — even from people you wiped out in more recent times . |
| 18 | The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times . |
| 19 | In more recent times Sturridge was an innovator of the ‘ Jumbo bat ’ , a much heavier range of bat , which gave the stronger player the ability to hit the ball much further . |
| 20 | In more recent times technical updating had enabled some to be promoted . |
| 21 | In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug . |
| 22 | Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany . |
| 23 | We can classify the truly effective tonics into two groups : those of traditional herbal origin , and those made or isolated by chemicals in more recent times . |
| 24 | In more recent times dodder vines have been used as ‘ bridges ’ to transmit certain types of viruses from one host plant to another , so rapidly spreading the infections . |
| 25 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 26 | Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ . |
| 27 | In more recent times , English Heritage has completed a refurnishing of the house and restored the surrounding buildings . |
| 28 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 29 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 30 | In more recent times , migration from Mexico , Latin America and the West Indies has become a general source of such labour . |