Example sentences of "the [noun pl] of [det] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , there is good evidence that the crocodiles of that time were much faster-moving reptiles than their dinosaur contemporaries — indeed , the ancestors of modern crocodiles may have been nimble land-animals , since to this day crocodiles have an ankle structure typical of a rapid terrestrial carnivore . |
| 2 | Are your memories so short over there , or is it that you have deliberately forgotten or ignored the protests of that time . |
| 3 | At least the children were not subjected to the brutal excesses common enough in the collieries of that time . |
| 4 | Rain fell heavily all day to add to the misery of people who came in the shop , many of whom had lived through the Great War , and told Anne some of the horrors of that time . |
| 5 | Among the painters of this time to note are Antonín Manés , whose fine Romantic landscapes are signed ‘ Bohemus ’ , and the landscapes and still-lifes of Josef Navrátil who also painted house interiors . |
| 6 | Because one of the beauties of this time was his apparent ( or indeed real ) lack of motive . |
| 7 | For a nation of radicals and independents such as France , the creation of the Union Sacrée whereby men of all political hues submerged their feuds in the interests of national unity was one of the miracles of all time . |
| 8 | The place has all the appropriate externals , chimneys choked with ivy , windows with jasmine , worm-eaten shutters , mossy thatch , all of which ‘ under the quiet light of a sky marbled with high clouds would have made a sort of picture which we have all passed over as a ‘ charming bit ’ , touching other sensibilities than those which are stirred by the depression of the agricultural interest , with the sad lack of farming capital , as seen constantly in the newspapers of that time ’ . |
| 9 | The historian is entitled to regard the matter of leadership as an ‘ issue ’ in the minds of the men of this time . |
| 10 | His patronage may have seemed essential to the architects of that time , although corporate clients were emerging , such as Poor Law Boards , or boards of directors of railway companies . |
| 11 | Even very much more recently rabbit populations were encouraged in this way , for I recall being involved in work of this kind at Alfreton park , Derbyshire , in 1934 — this because the sportsmen of that time and locality wanted to bolt and shoot rabbits for sport . |
| 12 | The southumbrian kingdoms could have developed in any number of directions , three of which in particular seem to stand out : a southern England could have emerged , the domination of which was shared between the Mercians and the South Saxons ( this was the prospect in the reign of Wulfhere if the trends of that time had been maintained ) ; or even a south-eastern England dominated by the South Saxons ( this was perhaps a prospect in late 670s ) ; or a southern England dominated from the reign of Caedwalla by the West Saxons ( the prospect in the mid-680s ) . |
| 13 | Now we 're dealing with the year about eighteen ninety-six onwards , and the filmmakers of this time erm would make this large number of short films , make several in a day if they had the , if the , they had the opportunity and the subjects , and then they would print catalogues of these pictures and market them . |