Example sentences of "[adj] in [pron] [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | His major work , however , which became known as The Scale of Perfection was extremely popular in his own time . |
| 2 | To the first readers of Middlemarch , however , an elaboration of her plans might have seemed redundant , for if her ambitions were unusual in her own time , they were routine responsibilities by the 1870s . |
| 3 | Toynbee Hall was designed as a residential settlement to be inhabited by young university graduates , who were to work among the poor in their spare time — offering art , music and education as well as material help and advice — with the aim of achieving mutual knowledge and respect between the classes . |
| 4 | In my spare in my spare time I 'd like to be , like to do dancing and swimming . |
| 5 | Whereas-it was common in their own time for the Teddy Boys to be contrasted with a nostalgically remembered state of pre-existing harmony ‘ twenty years ago ’ or ‘ before the war ’ , given the real horror which greeted their arrival we can perhaps only marvel at the way in which the nostalgic trick of amnesia can now work in the Teds ' favour . |
| 6 | It seems clear then that life , at least as we know it , can exist only in regions of space-time in which one time and three space dimensions are not curled up small . |
| 7 | Most other staff keep equally active in their spare time , tempted by the climate , the wealth of local facilities and the ease of reaching desirable spots like the Alps , Lake Como and the Ligurian coast . |