Example sentences of "[art] [num] [prep] [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rowland , who this year celebrates 30 years as head of Lonrho , sees the 1990s as a time of great opportunity particularly in Eastern Europe and South Africa . |
| 2 | The volatility of the sterling series is much greater with particularly rapid growth being experienced in the mid-eighties at the time of sterling 's decline against the dollar . |
| 3 | It is easy — too easy , perhaps — to see the last decades of the 1700s as a time of unalleviated misery for a large part of the population of the British Isles . |
| 4 | The contemporary hooligan phenomenon arose in the 1960s at a time of unprecedented prosperity and low unemployment and has continued through recession both in the depressed north and the relatively prosperous south . |
| 5 | The Eurocurrency market is a wholesale market ; it had its origins in holdings of US dollars outside the US in the sixties at a time when the US authorities were placing restrictions on capital exports . |
| 6 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 7 | ‘ This is where the great man sat to write , ’ intoned Samuel , as they pushed -half a dozen at a time into the small study , with its huge jutting window overlooking the sea . |
| 8 | A female fruit fly , simply because of her tiny size , can hardly be expected to produce eggs in numbers to rival a cod , but even so , she can lay two thousand in a season in batches of a hundred at a time . |