Example sentences of "[prep] more [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | By comparison with what is available to the student of more modern times , the medievalist 's sources are often of very thin quality . |
| 2 | Exuberance will characterise them , according to Robert Stern , simply because ‘ unlike the corporations of more recent times , the owners are not on a theological mission ’ . |
| 3 | A shrub rose may be a true species , pure and simple , it may be ancient , or it can just as well be a highly cross-bred product of more recent times . |
| 4 | They might not dare to admit it , but they did n't like the changes they saw around them ; they enjoyed television 's recreations of more confident times , when they had had a country to be proud of , when people had reached maturity at forty and had not pandered to youth . |
| 5 | And the government was content to push the Bill through the Commons without the allocation of more Parliamentary time to it , despite the fact that it was a more substantial and complicated measure thanks to government intervention . |
| 6 | The remains of a table and chair told of more ordered times , spiders were everywhere , a mouse scuttled across the dirt floor startling the younger children who squeaked with fear . |
| 7 | It is worth noting that while it would be a gross aesthetic blunder to introduce music of more classical times ( from the Baroque onwards ) into contemporary music , one can introduce earlier music quite successfully . |
| 8 | Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times . |
| 9 | For more recent times we have the evidence of county gaols , lock-ups , courthouses , prisons , particularly of the Victorian era , which are well documented and have generally survived . |
| 10 | In preparation for more difficult times ahead , delegates ratified the drastic " Special Period in Time of Peace " austerity programme , adopted in September 1990 , which aimed to stem corruption and achieve food self-sufficiency [ see also p. 38229 ] . |
| 11 | The threat of invasion too continued into more modern times , for the occupants of the Hall fled to York in great panic in 1779 when the battle of Flamborough Head took place and the Americans under John Paul Jones won a decisive victory . |
| 12 | Moving into more recent times , The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell , edited by Stephanie Terenzio offers an insight into the recently deceased artist 's work and theories of art ( £25 ) . |
| 13 | The myth of the returned loved one is rooted deep in both Celtic and Norse mythology and has carried over into more recent times . |
| 14 | The Alpine folding movements culminated no more than 35 million years ago and continued into more recent times in some areas . |
| 15 | This form of " guerrilla ethnography " has obvious advantages over larger , better-equipped crews with more limited time in the field , but it does not include the consolations of insurance , institutional funding or any guarantees of selling the films afterwards . |
| 16 | Total receipts for the final were £21,000 ; as a comparison with more modern times , receipts for the 1976 final totalled £420,000 . |
| 17 | From more recent times comes the will left by a Yorkshire vicar who viewed his daughter 's adherence to contemporary fashion with mounting horror . |
| 18 | In Africa , for instance , standard-bearers of Legio III Augusta found themselves agentes curam macelli , or supervisors of markets ; a good equivalent here from more recent times might be the bazaar sergeant of British India . |
| 19 | The clumps and individual Lees we see today may only have been planted in the eighteenth or nineteenth centuries as part of the general landscape revival , on the apparent whim of an individual farmer , but some clumps may have survived better than others because the energies were right , and this may have enabled some of them to have had a continued existence from more distant times . |
| 20 | In more recent times the behaviour of British governments has been more restrained and more sophisticated , but their instincts and suspicions remain . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In more recent times technical updating had enabled some to be promoted . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |