Example sentences of "as [art] time [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The '90s will probably be remembered one day as the time of technological advance . |
| 2 | Even now Maggie remembered the making of it as a time of rare delight : when all the people of her life came together and did something for her . |
| 3 | The negative image of old age as a time of increasing dependency is discussed throughout this book and is evident in many assumptions about the nature of health in later life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Norma remembers it as a time of great happiness tinged with much sadness , for the pub was adopted by the Canadians and Americans stationed at Middleton St George . |
| 7 | Within the remembered traditions of the ‘ British way of life ’ , the late Victorian and Edwardian years — from the Gay Nineties until the Great War — hold a privileged position as a time of unrivalled tranquility . |
| 8 | A recent report by the BMA has confirmed that stress and disillusionment are common among young doctors , and various reports have pinpointed the preregistration year as a time of considerable unhappiness , up to half of preregistration house officers suffering from clinical depression during the year . |
| 9 | The New Year holiday lasts for three days and is seen as a time of fresh starts , new resolutions and auspicious omens . |
| 10 | Scott 's novels had created a view of the remoter British past as a time of high romance and chivalry . |
| 11 | Faced with such an upward price trend it is hardly surprising that historians have tended to present the war years as a time of deteriorating living standards . |