Example sentences of "[noun prp] ['s] time [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Today we use the word ‘ meditation ’ quite differently : in Hilton 's time it meant study rather than a purely contemplative exercise . |
2 | ‘ Since old Josh 's time it 's been used as a holiday retreat by various Proberts down the years , ’ he added , ‘ with some of the land let out for summer grazing to mainland farmers . ’ |
3 | In Keynes 's time it was mainly wealthy or high-income earning individuals who operated speculative balances , but in the modern economy this role has been assumed more by institutions which manage contractual savings held in pension funds , life assurance contracts , and the like . |
4 | In Suleyman 's time he returned to the medrese stream , teaching as far as the Sahn and then becoming kadi successively in Aleppo , Damascus and Istanbul , in retirement from which last post he died in 963/1555–6 . |
5 | In Darwin 's time everybody ( except Mendel who , tucked away in his monastery , was unfortunately ignored until after his death ) thought that inheritance was blending . |
6 | Tork 's time there was never wasted . |
7 | In Newton 's time it was possible for an educated person to have a grasp of the whole of human knowledge , at least in outline . |
8 | The dinosaurs were the highest form of reptile , but in Owen 's time they were the earliest known members of the class — exactly the reverse of what would have been predicted by a theory of continuous development . |
9 | ( Today no one would dare propose such a thing , even purely as a thought experiment , but in Schrödinger 's time they had not heard of animal liberation . ) |
10 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
11 | Furnished as it was in Cook 's time it 's now a museum containing many artefacts connected with Cook and his voyages . |
12 | By Joshua 's time they had reached the point of no return . |
13 | The Roman residence of the pope from the time of the Emperor Constantine had always been the Lateran and before Innocent 's time there was only a temporary residence at St Peter 's . |
14 | Since Pérignon 's time it has become evident that although the climate of Champagne barely manages to colour black grapes one particular variety , the Pinot Meunier , is the region 's most prolific producer and the vine least prone to the severe frosts experienced in the Marne valley . |
15 | As it is not recorded until the work of Hermann and Florence of Worcester , who states that the saint speared Swegen from his horse , it would not be impossible to consider this story a reaction to taxation by the Normans ; but if it did originate earlier it too conceivably had something to do with Edmund 's increasing popularity , and if Florence 's version was current in Cnut 's time he can not have been flattered by the notion that Edmund had disposed of his father in a similar way to that in which St Mercurius was believed to have killed the emperor Julian the Apostate . |