Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [prep] victorian time " in BNC.

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1 Hence : ‘ Many now forget that the rules of most sports were framed in Victorian times without resort to enforcement then ‘ in ’ , and were n't prison sentences then stiffer ?
2 They had all died at roughly the same time , victims of one of those brief epidemics of cholera that continued to attack the city until the great Loch Katrine water scheme was opened in Victorian times .
3 The house was originally 15th century , but it was demolished in Victorian times and the present house erected .
4 The book was set in Victorian times .
5 There 's been advertising for years , not just since the fifties ; there was advertising in Victorian times ; newspapers and magazines , and pornography with drawings of women , and how men thought women should look , and the theatre and books all put out the same sorts of things — this is how a woman should be .
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