Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun pl] of the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of commissioning artists to decorate ceramics in their own individual styles was a tradition first established in the 1770s when Josiah Wedgwood employed the services of noted artists of the time . |
| 2 | In the early days of the Canal Age , up to about 1840 , most boatmen received a rate of pay which compared very favourably with that of agricultural workers of the time ; they could often afford to keep a house as well as a boat . |
| 3 | It was a curious conceit of imperial memoirists of the time to claim that their labours were unknown to and unappreciated by the British public . |
| 4 | Virginia Woolf was one of a limited number of outspoken feminists of the time whose attitudes to gender provide a contemporary feminist yardstick for the analysis of Walker 's treatment of women , Woolf , like Walker , assumed a dichotomy of human characteristics and qualities according to gender . |
| 5 | New content and emphasis is to be found in all subjects of the syllabus but radical changes ( most of them very typical of other syllabuses of the time ) included : earlier and more intensive teaching of English , the teaching of more Mathematics earlier ( and less computational arithmetic ) , the localisation of History and Civics syllabuses ( but with world affairs added in the upper classes ) , the introduction of a Science syllabus , with considerable time weighing , based on an ‘ experimental approach ’ and intended to integrate contents and approaches originally taught separately as Nature Study , Rural Science , General Science , Health Education and Gardening , and a revised , expanded , and considerably more africanised Music syllabus . |
| 6 | Any trawl through the columns of local papers of the time catches a number of cases of cruelty to apprentices which to our age , shocked by revelations of child abuse , suggests the tip of an iceberg . |