Example sentences of "in [art] winter " in BNC.
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| 31 | It took about a year to organize , partly because the idea blossomed in the summer , too late for that year ; it is not the sort of place to go cycling in the winter . |
| 32 | ‘ Way back in the winter . |
| 33 | from early childhood we are all aware of the annual cycle of the season and its effect on nature , from the general sense of dormancy in the winter to the burst of light , warmth , colour , and activity in summer . |
| 34 | If it were found that more accidents occurred in the winter months between 6 and 8 o'clock in the evening compared with noon and 2 o'clock , is this because , during the early evening , lighting is worse , there is more traffic , drivers have been working longer and are more tired , or weather conditions are worse ? |
| 35 | The extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings that this would mean would also be accompanied by an extra hour of darkness in the winter mornings . |
| 36 | The extra hour of daylight in the winter evenings that this would mean would also be accompanied by an extra hour of darkness in the winter mornings . |
| 37 | With a twinge of conscience it occurred to her that it was not often Omi got out ; a rare trip to the theatre or a concert , Wannsee in summer , or Potsdam , but in the winter she was trapped in the flat , passing long , lonely hours looking on to a street where little happened . |
| 38 | The best time was in the winter when the snow was so bad I could n't walk the mile across the fields to school . |
| 39 | The service was facing its biggest crisis since the ambulances came to a stop in the Winter of Discontent ten years ago . |
| 40 | The highest level of epidemic influenza ever recorded by the unit was 918.1 per 100,000 in the winter epidemic 20 years ago . |
| 41 | It attacks Soviet policy in the winter war with Finland , and says the recognition of a puppet Communist government set up by emigre Finnish Communists was a serious mistake . |
| 42 | She wore it in the winter and the merry month of May ; |
| 43 | It 's bone-crackingly cold in the winter , and it does nothing but rain for the rest of the year . |
| 44 | Patients suffered in the Winter of Discontent in 1979 . |
| 45 | Bickerstaffe had taken over as General Secretary of NUPE from Alan Fisher who had been instrumental in the Winter of Discontent . |
| 46 | It was harder to work casually in the winter , though . |
| 47 | My Dad s always talking about trying a windmill , but he 's never managed it yet , so it 's home-made tallow candles in the winter , to save the electricity . |
| 48 | In a churchyard at Bilston in Staffordshire stands a memorial to a mother and her two infant children , who all died within a period of three weeks in the winter of 1847 ; they are described as ‘ all victims to the neglect of sanitary regulations specially referred to in a recent lecture on Health in this town . ’ |
| 49 | The Economic League , formed in the winter of 1919 to 1920 in order to lead a counter-attack by British capitalism against the rise of a mass labour movement , also added greatly to the difficulties of the General Council . |
| 50 | The liquorice fields of Pontefract , exotic as a blaze of opium poppies , meant fresh , juicy roots to chew in springtime and little , round , black pancakes in the winter . |
| 51 | I 've knitted you a battleaxe warmer so you do n't get frostbite when you go massacring in the winter time . |
| 52 | By all means do your British tour in the winter if you wish . |
| 53 | One of the most recent , from Sweden , revealed that statistically , pups born in the winter in that country are more likely to develop hip dysplasia than pups born in the summer … but only in some breeds , not in others . |
| 54 | Its sunless position is intentional , for in the summer months its purpose is to remain cool and in the winter it is kept warm by its thick coat of thatch . |
| 55 | Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries . |
| 56 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 57 | In the context of the rapidly deteriorating popular mood , already visible in the winter of 1941–2 , the slow deflation rather than the swift puncture of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ becomes all the more evident . |
| 58 | It took his appearance and speech on 30 September 1942 to dispel such rumours , only for them to recur in the winter of 1942–3 and especially after the Stalingrad disaster . |
| 59 | Gavoty knew Honegger and had discussed with him this astonishing work — ‘ a drama in three acts , a formless prayer articulated by a world in turmoil' — which Honegger had written in the winter of 1945–6 . |
| 60 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |