Example sentences of "in more [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more recent times the behaviour of British governments has been more restrained and more sophisticated , but their instincts and suspicions remain . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In more recent times technical updating had enabled some to be promoted . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In more recent times , the most highly developed exposition has been that of Wilhelm Reich ( 1897–1957 ) . |
| 13 | Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ . |
| 14 | In more recent times , English Heritage has completed a refurnishing of the house and restored the surrounding buildings . |
| 15 | In more recent times the village was part of Lord Burlington 's estate at Londesborough , and was eventually sold off at the beginning of this century . |
| 16 | I understand this theory and , while I am not able to disprove it , I feel that , in the light of all the research which has been done in more recent times , it leaves too many gaps which no one has yet been able to fill . |
| 17 | In more recent times , migration from Mexico , Latin America and the West Indies has become a general source of such labour . |
| 18 | In more recent times drugs have been used more frequently and not just by the stars . |
| 19 | In more recent times it was important for over a century for one reason : it was supported by Sir Isaac Newton . |
| 20 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 21 | In more recent times , Al Stewart has donated ‘ Here 's To Warren Harding ’ , recalling how the 29th President was ‘ Alone in the White House , watching the sun come up on the morning of 1921 ’ ; Elvis Costello has resurrected bluesman J B Lenoir 's ‘ Eisenhower Blues ’ ; Tom Paxton advising that ‘ Lyndon Johnson Told The Nation ’ ; while , only a week ago , U96 released ‘ I Wan na Be A Kennedy ’ , just another of the scores of Kennedy songs that have proliferated through rock since ‘ 62 . |
| 22 | His collection was particularly strong in German prints — it includes works by the Master E.S. , the Master P.W. , and the Master of South Germany , active between 1490 and 1500 — and was consulted by print experts from Zani in the late eighteenth century to Lehrs and Kristeller in more recent times . |
| 23 | This focus on experience ( in Greek empeiria ) is expressed in the standard description of Hume 's type of philosophy as empiricist rather than rationalist ; and empiricism of this stamp has been especially influential in British philosophy in more recent times as well . |
| 24 | In more recent times the functioning of Swedish industrial relations has been as much , if not more , dependent upon the centralisation of power within the employers ' confederation as upon the unions ' peak organisation . |
| 25 | Split-brain studies have science fiction overtones which have led to their widespread publicity in more recent times . |
| 26 | In more recent times , however , this has ceased to be the case . |
| 27 | Indeed he was so far intent on this reference to visual reality that he strenuously advocated , not only in his teaching but in his own practice , a reliance on the camera , tracing a dependence on it back to the use of the camera lucida by Vermeer and Canaletto , as well as by Millett , Degas — and he might have added Monet — in more recent times , and adding the only proviso that , like alcohol , it is only permissible to those who can do without it . |
| 28 | It is widely acknowledged that the school examination system has exerted a powerful controlling effect on school curricula , even if , in more recent times , CSE ( Mode 3 ) has allowed schools to play a significant role on the assessment of their own pupils . |
| 29 | In more recent times , the present owners turned the old peasants ' houses , which are scattered all over the estate , into pleasant apartments . |
| 30 | One group took the same path as the sea slugs did in more recent times and lost their shells altogether . |