Example sentences of "mists [prep] time " in BNC.

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1 In the mists of time I can not recall why we started so late .
2 With all the themes previously outlined in mind , it is time to make a brief chronological survey of that process , which began in the mists of time , and has made inevitable the problems and conflicts described in the remaining chapters of this book .
3 Deborah Dean had been nicknamed Dimity so long ago that the reason for the diminutive had been lost in the mists of time .
4 THE TRUE ORIGINS of aromatherapy have evaporated into the mists of time .
5 ‘ You tend to lose the origins of it ’ , was what Anne Smith said about Bellerby Feast , but the observation could apply equally to a number of events whose origins are lost in the ‘ mists of time ’ .
6 Edmund Bogg , writing at the beginning of this century when the feast lasted several days , learnt from the vicar that the origins of ‘ burning owd Bartle ’ were lost in the mists of time , but the figure represented St Bartholomew .
7 Travel back into those mists of time and you will meet many who have gone before and who also may have experienced these sudden sea frets , for that is what these mists are .
8 The Queen and Prince Philip survived it only because it came upon them in middle age — when any youthful indescretion or misbehaviour had long since been enjoyed and then forgotten in the mists of time .
9 But , in an uncanny moment of premonition , I am able to see through the mists of time to Judgement Day .
10 The origins of local government in Britain are lost not so much in the mists of time as in a fog of detail .
11 Some sport Gazza crops , while others lost their hair back in the mists of time .
12 What actually transpired upon the outbreak of the Civil War is lost in the mists of time it would seem .
13 He tried to explain that magic had indeed once been wild and lawless , but had been tamed back in the mists of time by the Olden Ones , who had bound it to obey among other things the Law of Conservation of Reality ; this demanded that the effort needed to achieve a goal should be the same regardless of the means used .
14 ‘ The origins of Morris dancing are lost in the mists of time .
15 Even memories are lost in the mists of time . ’
16 Now , from rock nineteen ninety three style , let us move slowly back into the mists of time and a real rave from the grave : Elvis .
17 Walking through the ancient forest of Wychwood , EV Thompson steps back through the mists of time .
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