Example sentences of "of the [adj] times [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | As sporting intros go , it ranked with the effort by the correspondent of the Irish Times at the Montreal Olympics of 1976 . |
2 | This is one of the leanest times of the year so we are exhorting the Department of Agriculture to speed things up . ’ |
3 | September is one of the best times for sowing wildflower seeds , particularly the many mixtures now available . |
4 | For the mink in America , winter is one of the best times for muskrats . |
5 | This is one of the best times for catching worms . |
6 | Some of the best times of his life had been Sunday mornings . |
7 | Some of the best times of my life . |
8 | How the ravers were to find their way out of Chalk Farm and into their bedsits would also be a challenge worthy of the do-it-yourself times into which the metropolitans were moving . |
9 | Mr McDermott has been the editor of this section of the Financial Times for the past four years , and has written two books on Egypt and peace keeping in the Middle East . |
10 | A woman with money of her own , she was only happy with a pencil in her hand , a telephone at her elbow , and a copy of the Financial Times on her lap . |
11 | The number of bills allotted and the prices ( quoted as a percentage discount ) can be seen in the money market report of the Financial Times on the following Monday . |
12 | Cunningham was leafing through a copy of the Financial Times at his desk amidst a cloud of cigar-smoke , beaming like some genial movie mogul , altogether unaffected , it seemed , by the events of the previous night . |
13 | Early on the following Thursday morning , she grabbed the pale pink copy of the Financial Times from her breakfast tray . |
14 | The first changes were minor — Kemsley 's sale of the Daily Sketch to Lord Rothermere in 1952 and the Pearson/West-minster Press purchase of The Financial Times in 1957 . |
15 | Indeed , each of the five times since 1915 that there has been a minority government in power it has been Labour , dependent either on the Liberals ' support , their abstentions , or on all the other parties not uniting to defeat them . |
16 | I soon found myself engrossed in the history of the valley ; tales and stories of the turbulent times of Border wars . |
17 | Babatunde Jose , former chairman and managing director of the Daily Times of Nigeria , a distinguished and experienced journalist and editor , had frequent brushes with the authorities during his long career but understood the problem and was able to appreciate his adversaries ' point of view . |
18 | THE sign of the troubled times in the road outside 10 Downing Street yesterday . |
19 | I remember listening , fascinated , to her enormous fund of stories of the old times in Jamaica , of my grandad , whom I never knew , and of the ‘ white folks ’ . |
20 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
21 | She could look back on that time with a great deal of fondness ; it had been one of the few times in her life when she had been truly free — there had been no one , neither family , friends nor employer — to make demands on her . |
22 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
23 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
24 | ‘ This means the forms will be dropping through farmers ’ letter boxes at one of the busiest times of the year , ’ said NFU regional director John Biles . |
25 | Perhaps I should go no further without declaring an allegiance to Neath which survived some of the grimmer times in the club 's history . |
26 | Regardless of how I feel about it now , this period was one of the happiest times of my life . |
27 | 1984 — DIANA is pregnant with Prince Harry , and during the summer before his birth the royal couple are said to enjoy some of the happiest times of their marriage . |
28 | He says that illustrating this book was ‘ one of the happiest times of my life . ’ |
29 | David Prentice has spent some of the happiest times of his life visiting the Malvern hills . |
30 | It was to be one of the worst times in the whole five years . |