Example sentences of "one of the [adj] times " in BNC.
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1 | You might , for example , inquire after Richard Dunwoody , whose Becher 's Brook fall on the much-fancied Brown Windsor was just one of the six times he hit the ground during the three-day meeting . |
2 | September is one of the best times for sowing wildflower seeds , particularly the many mixtures now available . |
3 | The year will be remembered as one of the best times we ever had . |
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 | It was in the 2nd round of the FA Cup in December 1937 when the Palace had had to make the long trip to Accrington on one of the rare times when the draw for this round was not made on a geographical basis . |
7 | She come off the phone and she said , bloody hell she said that one of the rare times I go to the trouble of making myself butties for dinner , cos usually she gets a pasty or something , and I get invited out for dinner , you this Viv er , a friend of hers , you know the one that was having trouble with all that drainage underneath the |
8 | ‘ It 's one of the fastest times I can remember for so early in the season , ’ said Christie . |
9 | I remember clearly one of the first times I gave a word of knowledge . |
10 | It may be one of the first times citizens anywhere have been allowed to vote on detailed defence-procurement questions . |
11 | This is one of the leanest times of the year so we are exhorting the Department of Agriculture to speed things up . ’ |
12 | But joy of joys , the New Moon in Scorpio on the 29th and some stunning planetary aspects in early November should spark off some kind of personal revival and no matter how many times you have been let down or left in the lurch in the past , emotionally this can and ought to be one of the happiest times you have ever known . |
13 | Regardless of how I feel about it now , this period was one of the happiest times of my life . |
14 | He says that illustrating this book was ‘ one of the happiest times of my life . ’ |
15 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
16 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
17 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
18 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
19 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |
20 | One of the few times you will find big bream in waters which do not match up to the points I have mentioned is when they are the result of a recent stocking operation . |
21 | In fact , it was one of the few times I had seen him act in a civil way towards his stepmother . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | It was a perfect day of hot sun with a light following wind , one of the few times that we were able to sunbathe . |
24 | Edward sat frozen , one of the few times in his life he had been genuinely frightened . |
25 | It was one of the few times in my life when I actually spoke the truth . |
26 | And er we , one of the few times my dad came to Foundry Lane he I got a book , I think it were called Tiger Tim and , on the back they gave a model that you cut out with scissors and pu |
27 | ‘ One of the last times I saw my mother , I was borrowing money off her . |
28 | It was to be one of the worst times in the whole five years . |
29 | ‘ 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 . |
30 | This is one of the thin times , but I ca n't think of any other manager to do a better job for Nottingham Forest at the moment than Brian Clough . ’ |