Example sentences of "of recent time " in BNC.

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1 Saatchi , the most spectacular collector of recent times and probably the most active collector in British history ( with the exception of King Charles I ) , had bought their work in greater bulk and more intelligently than any other individual or institution .
2 This is not the first such row of recent times .
3 You will not dispute , I presume , that Mr Marshall of Charleville House and Mr Lane of Bridewood have been the two great butlers of recent times .
4 It was almost as though some supernatural force possessed him , causing him to shed twenty years ; his face lost much of the sunken look of recent times , and he went about his work with such youthful vigour that a stranger might have believed there were not one but several such figures pushing trolleys about the corridors of Darlington Hall .
5 She is , as one permanent secretary put it , the ‘ most commanding prime minister of recent times ’ .
6 IF YOU want to watch television around midnight on the Sabbath , and if you happen to be in a region where nothing less important has taken precedence , you can follow one of the most excellent science series of recent times .
7 The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages .
8 I read Norman Mailer 's journalism about an action-man writer involved in danger , resistance and political commitment : adventure stories not of the distant past , but of recent times .
9 A lot of the tunes represent not only musical goals , but more down-to-earth events of recent times with my life — unlike the other records which were more fantasising about other-worldly situations or remembering dreams and make-believe world material . ’
10 The appeals in Midweek and NSS helped to raise more than £100,000 towards the relief of one of the least reported famines of recent times .
11 The key text , from within Hugh Gaitskell 's inner circle , is Roy Jenkins ' book , A Life at the Centre , one of the most engaging political memoirs of recent times , not least because he shows an unusual generosity of spirit to those with whom he was out of tune , most notably Harold Wilson .
12 There 's little point either in conjecturing as to whether this is the best England side of recent times .
13 It was hailed as one of the best heavyweight bouts of recent times and Bowe 's reward was a shot at undisputed champion Evander Holyfield on November 13 .
14 In the first place , the historian of recent times has a subject-matter different in kind from that studied by some of his colleagues .
15 The rest of this chapter will describe some of the resultant advantages for the historian of recent times .
16 Holmes can be viewed as the grandfather of the American legal realist movement ; his statement that ‘ the life of the law has not been logic : it has been experience ’ has , for example , become one of the most celebrated legal aphorisms of recent times .
17 Unlike other British sculptors of recent times , however , the materials he works with are not drawn from the junk-heap but tend to be artefacts symbolic of consumer society : cars , television sets and illustrated magazines .
18 European deals also do not promise the same rewards as the UK mega-deals of recent times .
19 He was the hearing son of one of the most remarkable deaf men of recent times — George Annand Mackenzie , who was born in 1868 as one of three deaf brothers .
20 Tom Sutcliffe , one of the outstanding deafened men of recent times , was born with normal hearing and chose the church as his vocation .
21 However , some events of recent times have soured by happiness .
22 But , sadly , at the end of the road , there was nothing but heartache for one of the bravest challengers of recent times .
23 And despite the travails of recent times , trust in one 's fellow countrymen and a discriminating , possibly confident , perception of other people remain significant features of the British political culture .
24 Indeed , it has seemed of recent times , that all England needed to do to win in Dublin was just to turn up .
25 I believe that the original Arbortech Woodcarver was one of the most dynamic inventions for woodworkers of recent time , offering fast cutting with a good finish and potential for fine detailing .
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