Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Douglas Jay observed that the later 1970s were a time of genuine recovery — ‘ one of the few examples of any Western governments in the seventies reducing both inflationary pressures and unemployment ’ at one and the same time . |
| 2 | Looking back at those debates on how we could fill in the time on our hands , the novelist Herbert Gold reflected that the Fifties were a time of ‘ happy people with happy problems ’ . |
| 3 | If the 1920s were a time of depression , the 1930s were not that much better , and morale amongst deaf people was still at an all-time low . |
| 4 | Their first years together were a time of grinding poverty . |
| 5 | The early and mid-seventies were a time of ‘ no warning ’ bombs and sectarian killings were escalating . |
| 6 | The early 1870s were a time of prosperity for the trade , and the ETS felt sufficiently confident to present a memorial to the employers in 1871 asking for a further reduction to fifty-one hours . |
| 7 | Until comparatively recently there was a general belief or tacit agreement within the community that the later years of life were a time of " all passion spent " — that sex stopped or should stop with the menopause in women and that it continued into later years only in old men who were awarded the epithet " dirty " . |
| 8 | It can not be entirely coincidental that these years were a time of important new developments in both the Church and the Mercian kingdom . |
| 9 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 10 | The seventy-five years preceding 1066 were a time of great activity in the Canterbury scriptorium , which produced a number of magnificently-illustrated gospel and service-books , as well as many more mundane volumes apparently intended to form a new cathedral library . |
| 11 | The 1930s were a time of religious upheaval on the sub continent and Corporal Selwyn and his fellow Glosters were put on riot control duties in India and Burma . |
| 12 | But the sixties were a time for breaking rules , transgressing limits . |
| 13 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 14 | The Second Period was the time during which was laid down the evidence the nature of which has been revealed by men such as Charles Darwin and others , who gave to the world an understanding of the way in which evolution has operated through thousands of millions of years . |
| 15 | But , and this is Libet 's error , what the subject was actually comparing was the time at which two experiences were occurring . |
| 16 | This was the time at which Harington was still grappling with the improved purification of thyroxine ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 17 | He still felt naked and drained after the speech , yet now was the time to be weaving more individuals firmly into thy spreading fabric . |
| 18 | Father Devlin decided this was the time to be mute and neutral . |
| 19 | Had someone or something decided that now was the time to be serious ? |
| 20 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 21 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 22 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 23 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 24 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 25 | This was the time of day he went to Mr Hyde 's farm to fetch the milk . |
| 26 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 27 | First , the period until 1830 was the time of the early travellers ; second , from 1830 until 1930 was the period of early botanists and naturalists ; third , 1930 until 1980 was the period of the first ecological studies and also of Professor J. W. Heslop Harrison and Miss M. S. Campbell ; and finally the 1980s , the period of the Integrated Development Programme ( 1982–1987 ) , which gave rise to more intensive research . |
| 28 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 29 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 30 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |