Example sentences of "from [adj] times " in BNC.
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1 | Rannoch is a wild place , full of wild stories from turbulent times of Scottish history , and Joicey Munro left his mark . |
2 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
3 | The ancient Penny Hedge ceremony , which dates from feudal times and has been promoted in recent times by the English Tourist Board , takes place in Whitby tomorrow . |
4 | ‘ In times of emergency we behave differently from normal times , ’ says Meir Edlestein , the director of the Mevasseret absorption centre . |
5 | The Centre 's displays illustrate the changing landscape from geological times to the present date . |
6 | A scattering of cottages , an idyllically set Tudor Manor house and , a few hundred yards away , a church dating from Norman times ; all this in a peaceful valley of a tributary of the Looe River . |
7 | Founded in 1947 , Merrydown maintains a tradition of cider making dating from Norman times . |
8 | Three interesting features inside are the box pews , the semi-circular altar rail , and the stone lectern dating from Norman times . |
9 | It was a port from Norman times to the 19th century , and has an 11th-century castle perched high on the cliffs above the River Wye and a pretty church with a Norman nave . |
10 | From Norman times the local keeper of the peace was termed Constable , his duties consisting of ensuring the upkeep of prisons , stocks etc. , and assisting the church warden in seeing the villagers attended church regularly . |
11 | Southwell Minster is a very beautiful building , much of its exterior unchanged from Norman times but also with its unique thirteenth century interior work ( Chapter 2 ) . |
12 | However , we can not be sure , for it is clear that from Mesolithic times onwards the frequency of brachycephaly was increasing continually in some parts of Europe . |
13 | Recently opened at the Museum of London 's Treasury is ‘ Treasures & Trinkets ’ — jewellery from pre-Roman times to the 1930s . |
14 | This is the area where , like Grassington in Wharfedale , lead was mined from pre-Roman times until early this century . |
15 | One the oldest which comes from pre-Roman times , okay ? |
16 | But in many respects they are very different , and they come from different times : they are separated from one another by three-quarters of a century . |
17 | One can , for instance , easily imagine circumstances in which oral utterances including recollections from different times and places are , as it were , placed side by side as in a debating chamber and where the listeners could then recognise contradictions and employ their ‘ critical ’ faculties . |
18 | American history , from pre-Columbian times to the present , is told through more than eighty works of art with accompanying texts in English and Spanish by Edith Pavese in United States History in Notable Works of Art , ( £25 , $29.95 ) . |
19 | Among them are outstanding objects from the Olmec , Aztec and Maya civilisations including a turquoise Aztec mosaic mask in the form of two intertwined rattlesnakes , painted codices from pre-Hispanic times , among them the Codex Zouche , stone architectural fragments from Mayan sites and jades from the Olmec period . |
20 | Investigations in the area — part of the valley of the river Wolf , north-west of Dartmoor — have revealed evidence of human activity dating from neolithic times . |
21 | Jane Newdick 's recently published book , Period Flowers , draws on inspiration from medieval times onwards to make inspiring flower arrangements great and small . |
22 | As shown in Chapter 4 , from medieval times gold was being exported from the Shona-speaking kingdoms centred at Great Zimbabwe through Arab traders at Sofala in Mozambique . |
23 | In West Africa trade with the Mediterranean coast and Cairo was continuous from medieval times . |
24 | From medieval times there must have been some kind of dwelling on the slight rise in the ground upon which the house stood . |
25 | Fishing was the source of Lowestoft 's livelihood from medieval times , and one or two of its old herring-curing houses survive , usually two- or three-storey buildings with shuttered upper floors and roof vents . |
26 | From medieval times until the present century Saltash has held jurisdiction over these waters . |
27 | The second source is from medieval times , when the ‘ devil-cat ’ was feared and hated . |
28 | This programme takes an entertaining look at the different ages of Northampton , from Medieval times , through the Industrial Revolution and Victorian era , to the present day . |
29 | Official documents and those concerned with the lease , sale and transfer of land and other property , survive in considerable numbers from medieval times , but these are usually only of much interest to the topographer and county historian . |
30 | From medieval times the street itself had accommodated market traders , their chief area being the Lawnmarket — once called the Landmarket — to which people from neighbouring farmlands brought in food and goods . |