Example sentences of "in [adv] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 The book has come out in remarkably quick time , a great tribute to Ian Robertson , the editor , who must have beavered away ferociously .
2 A view held by many organisers of such promotions is that the consumer , in economically difficult times , is more likely to be attracted by the opportunity to save money than by incidental free offers or competitions .
3 Much as I admire a great deal of Ken Worpole 's contributions to discussion on alternative methods of arts funding — his and Geoff Mulgan 's ‘ Saturday Night , Sunday Morning ’ was an invaluable piece of work — his thoughts ( almost gleeful I thought ) on the problems of civic buildings ( MT May ) were shot through with the baby-out-with-the-bathwater conclusions which seem to be endemic in much new times and new Left thinking on the arts generally .
4 Historians are rarely able to get to the truth of the matter in this way , but family stories often suggest that drunkenness was the reason for an otherwise inexplicable decline , not just in the Tudor and Stuart era but in much later times .
5 ‘ It was prepared in much happier times , ’ he explained .
6 Labyrinths of this type have been found inscribed on tombs in Egypt dating to 3400BC , and the same design occurs on the Cretan coins of the Minoan period , though it may have originated in much earlier times .
7 He took Pask 's conservative philosophy even further by stressing that even in less strained times Britain should not pioneer technology , but should let America develop experience and then copy the designs .
8 In less sophisticated times , people searching for minerals picked up clues simply by walking over the ground and examining it visually .
9 He was merely quoting his old textbook from the Ecole de Viticulture et d'Oenologie at Avize which examines the practices of Champagne in the 1940s ; no doubt , the breakdown of cuvée and taille merely indicated the number of press operations it took , in less sophisticated times , to squeeze out these two parts of extraction .
10 His old one was stolen by the Czech secret police in less happy times .
11 Nowadays we live in less saintly times and I long for someone to help me with my ironing .
12 Of course we live in less barbarous times .
13 In less demanding times , it is often argued , they should be capable of making healthy returns .
14 ‘ It would be extremely sad to see this railway go to the wall , after so many volunteers have put in so much time and money to keep steam travel alive in Hampshire . ’
15 To misquote Sir Winston Churchill : ‘ Never in the field of human conflict did the votes of so many influence the outcome of so few in so much time . ’
16 The implementation of such a large energy programme in so little time posed many financial and industrial problems , and also problems of siting and public acceptance .
17 So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development .
18 For certain there will be changes , but it is doubtful if there will ever be such a long line of devoted , generous and hardworking people as those who served the Club so enthusiastically in immensely difficult times , and saved it from certain closure for the likes of ourselves to enjoy .
19 In hardly any time at all there was a satisfying crackling and an aromatic smell of burning wood as flames began to lick up the logs .
20 In more recent times the behaviour of British governments has been more restrained and more sophisticated , but their instincts and suspicions remain .
21 Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class .
22 Since humans first developed methods of catching fish , the occasional dolphin or porpoise has probably fallen unwitting victim to net , hook , or in more recent times , trawl net .
23 Ancient history is scarce around these parts , and you take it where you can get it — even from people you wiped out in more recent times .
24 The fourteenth century is another country to the young but in any case I do n't like to make specific parallels with events in more recent times .
25 In more recent times Sturridge was an innovator of the ‘ Jumbo bat ’ , a much heavier range of bat , which gave the stronger player the ability to hit the ball much further .
26 In more recent times technical updating had enabled some to be promoted .
27 In more recent times it was prescribed as Belladonnae herba ( BPC 1968 ) which was the dried leaves or aerial parts of the plant which contained 0.4–1 per cent of the drug .
28 Evidently the need to furnish an emerging capital with prestigious works of art remained important throughout antiquity and indeed in more recent times : Rome lost much , though temporarily , from Napoleon 's ambitious plans for embellishing Paris with famous works of art , and during the Second World War many artistic works were transported from Italy to Germany .
29 We can classify the truly effective tonics into two groups : those of traditional herbal origin , and those made or isolated by chemicals in more recent times .
30 In more recent times dodder vines have been used as ‘ bridges ’ to transmit certain types of viruses from one host plant to another , so rapidly spreading the infections .
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