Example sentences of "in the [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Sean Freyne of Trinity College , a former Roman catholic priest , published an article in the Irish Times favouring the constitutional amendment , and suggesting that the Irish bishops ' attitude to marriage , despite some signs to the contrary , was eminently legal and contractual in orientation ( Irish Times , 5 June 1986 ) . |
| 2 | Further proof of the SDLP 's true nature ( if it were needed ) was provided in the Irish Times report of the Party 's 1989 annual conference in Newcastle , Co . |
| 3 | frank Connor , profiled in the Irish Times , relaxing at home with his wife Mary and his five-year-old daughter Kelly . |
| 4 | The Irish state telephone monopoly Telecom Eireann has denied a report in the Irish Times that it is up for sale , but shares in Cable & Wireless Plc were up sevenpence at 721p yesterday morning on news it is in talks about possibly buying a 25% stake in the Irish phone company . |
| 5 | The background to Dr James 's activities ( the thefts are alleged to have taken place between 1983 and 1989 ) and the collection 's record of poor security , lack of co-operation between staff and trustees and professional mis-conduct , were covered in detail in a recent article in The Irish Times ( 22 February ) . |
| 6 | In a recent article in the Irish Times , referring to the ‘ job creation ’ units set up by the Catholic Church , the paper hailed the clergy with the headline , ‘ Priests take on Provos for the People 's hearts ’ . |
| 7 | May I draw the attention of the Secretary of State to the report in The Irish Times yesterday week about the recent meeting of the British-Irish parliamentary group in Dublin , and the contribution of his hon. Friend the Member for Lancashire , West ( Mr. Hind ) about the security situation in proximity to the border ? |
| 8 | It 's in the Irish Times like on the property section |
| 9 | ‘ The night-scene when they were landing the herring is one never to be forgotten , especially in the early times . |
| 10 | We get told that erm in the early times there was quite a bit of social activities going on , lots of clubs and things |
| 11 | A few low hovels that had once been homes to river people were now derelict , and an empty building which was once a sailmaker 's and then a barge-builder 's premises now stood empty after its last owner , a steam-traction engineer , foundered in the changing times . |
| 12 | The allegations that Mr Singh , a former Congress ( I ) finance minister , had stashed millions of dollars in a numbered St Kitts account , were made in August in the Arab Times of Kuwait , not previously known for its scoops about India . |
| 13 | And along the top of the wall where once , back in the peaceful times , you set pieces of broken glass , you now run razor wire , each tine designed for maximum snag . |
| 14 | Even as he was preparing to uproot millions of peasants and to destroy their homes , Ceauşescu praised their patriotism in terms ringing with irony : ‘ In the toughest times , their forefathers did not desert the land where they were born , but in brotherhood with it , with the mountains , fields , rivers and great woods , they unflinchingly remained in these parts , defending their being , their right to free existence . ’ |
| 15 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 16 | The prize for the most unfortunate advertisement this year must go to Mobil , the oil major , for yesterday 's offering in the Financial Times . |
| 17 | Up sixty per cent this year in Turkey , he 'd read in The Financial Times . |
| 18 | The new group — ‘ the Disestablishment ’ as they were christened in a series of articles in the Financial Times — was highly fluid . |
| 19 | Reviewing Dunster in the Financial Times , Isabel Quigly described the book as ‘ masterly ’ and Boyd Tonkin in New Statesman and Society thought it purred along ‘ like a vintage but comfily upholstered limo ’ . |
| 20 | Mark Archer in the Financial Times thought he had written ‘ a marvellous account of a much misunderstood age ’ . |
| 21 | The following exchange rates of 24th July 1989 have been used in calculating VAT as quoted in the Financial Times of 25th July 1989 . |
| 22 | All prices quoted in this brochure are based on exchange rates published in the Financial Times of 25/07/89 and are as follows ( in foreign currency value per £1 ) : |
| 23 | The following exchange rates have been used in calculating VAT and known costs for the prices , as quoted in the Financial Times of 25th July 1989 . |
| 24 | A commentator in the Financial Times delivered himself of the following judgment : ‘ Tripe is tripe : if it is not then what we have here is codswallop , tommyrot , drivel . |
| 25 | The current values of units are published daily in the Financial Times and each year you will be sent a statement showing the progress of your Bond . |
| 26 | Need to know the changes in the Financial Times Index as they happen ? … or the latest foreign exchange rate ? |
| 27 | Interview in the Financial Times as Chancellor of the Exchequer , October 1990 . |
| 28 | According to a report in the Financial Times of Canada , the court ruled that the man concerned was not in the business of being a thief and so the cash he had stolen was not ‘ income ’ for the purposes of the law . |
| 29 | A short report in the Financial Times for 19/20 December 1992 states that women who were sacked from a mushroom farm after refusing new contracts that they alleged had made cuts in their pay , had been given permission by the Court of Appeal on 18 December 1992 to carry out a leaflet campaign to persuade shoppers not to buy the farm 's produce . |
| 30 | It appears from a note in the Financial Times of 29 July 1992 that the Tribunal reached its decision following evidence that Mark Perl , a manager at National Leisure Catering at the South Bank Centre in London , said of five black workers : ‘ I 'm going to see my black slaves ’ . |