Example sentences of "[prep] recent times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution . |
| 2 | This is not the first such row of recent times . |
| 3 | You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times . |
| 4 | It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall . |
| 5 | She is , as one permanent secretary put it , the ‘ most commanding prime minister of recent times ’ . |
| 6 | IF YOU want to watch television around midnight on the Sabbath , and if you happen to be in a region where nothing less important has taken precedence , you can follow one of the most excellent science series of recent times . |
| 7 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | I read Norman Mailer 's journalism about an action-man writer involved in danger , resistance and political commitment : adventure stories not of the distant past , but of recent times . |
| 9 | A lot of the tunes represent not only musical goals , but more down-to-earth events of recent times with my life — unlike the other records which were more fantasising about other-worldly situations or remembering dreams and make-believe world material . ’ |
| 10 | The appeals in Midweek and NSS helped to raise more than £100,000 towards the relief of one of the least reported famines of recent times . |
| 11 | The key text , from within Hugh Gaitskell 's inner circle , is Roy Jenkins ' book , A Life at the Centre , one of the most engaging political memoirs of recent times , not least because he shows an unusual generosity of spirit to those with whom he was out of tune , most notably Harold Wilson . |
| 12 | There 's little point either in conjecturing as to whether this is the best England side of recent times . |
| 13 | It was hailed as one of the best heavyweight bouts of recent times and Bowe 's reward was a shot at undisputed champion Evander Holyfield on November 13 . |
| 14 | In the first place , the historian of recent times has a subject-matter different in kind from that studied by some of his colleagues . |
| 15 | The rest of this chapter will describe some of the resultant advantages for the historian of recent times . |
| 16 | Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times . |
| 17 | Unlike other British sculptors of recent times , however , the materials he works with are not drawn from the junk-heap but tend to be artefacts symbolic of consumer society : cars , television sets and illustrated magazines . |
| 18 | European deals also do not promise the same rewards as the UK mega-deals of recent times . |
| 19 | He was the hearing son of one of the most remarkable deaf men of recent times — George Annand Mackenzie , who was born in 1868 as one of three deaf brothers . |
| 20 | Tom Sutcliffe , one of the outstanding deafened men of recent times , was born with normal hearing and chose the church as his vocation . |
| 21 | However , some events of recent times have soured by happiness . |
| 22 | But , sadly , at the end of the road , there was nothing but heartache for one of the bravest challengers of recent times . |
| 23 | And despite the travails of recent times , trust in one 's fellow countrymen and a discriminating , possibly confident , perception of other people remain significant features of the British political culture . |
| 24 | Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up . |
| 25 | The unusual degree of relative autonomy of the Spanish state has continued into recent times . |
| 26 | Dick Hobbs ( 1988 ) lived with thieves and detectives as they set out to ‘ do the business ’ , and perhaps one of the most effective pieces of participant observation in recent times has been the four-volume Policy Studies Institute work on the police in London ( 1983 ) . |
| 27 | The skew chisel is well known , and though not manufactured in recent times , the skew gouge has been utilised as a modification . |
| 28 | This book is set against the breakdown of the pattern in recent times , the next will concentrate on peasants who have moved to the city . |
| 29 | It was badly scarred by the ill-fated attempt to acquire Leyland Vehicles and Land Rover , and only in recent times has it begun to reverse its image in Britain as little more than a screwdriver assembler of cars . |
| 30 | He named Francis Fukuyama , an American , whose ‘ End of History ’ article might tempt one to think that the struggle was over and to put one 's feet up , thinking that every alternative to economic liberalism , in recent times , had shown itself to be hopelessly flawed . |