Example sentences of "[adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | From Cambrian times onwards temperatures had been alternating between warm , moderate and glacial . |
| 2 | After Cambrian times , most of the sediments were derived from within the Welsh Basin . |
| 3 | When freshly prepared , a period of 30 min or more may be required to stain the slides , but with maturity , this stain " ripens " and staining times can be progressively shortened . |
| 4 | Staining times in particular are highly variable , and those given herein should only be used as a starting point . |
| 5 | They had , especially in the hard hopeless times of the first half of the century , been fused into a homogeneous mass of the discontented and the oppressed . |
| 6 | As a result Diana considered her wedding day to be one of the most emotionally confusing times of her life . |
| 7 | Here ; in north Hertfordshire and south Cambridgeshire , we are on the chalk land , cleared of its woodland cover in pre-Saxon times . |
| 8 | because their husbands have made these settlements , often at very emotional times when the women were not really in a position to really make sure they |
| 9 | One of the most emotional times for anyone . |
| 10 | The repercussions of the introduction of cash crops have been analysed in detail in postcolonial times ( Dinham & Hines 1983 ) , particularly upon a reduced capacity of households to grow enough food for themselves , upon nutrition , and upon their ability to withstand drought and other , socially-induced , disasters ( Copans 1975 ; O'Keefe et al. |
| 11 | However , Joseph Hepworth was better known as the editor of the British Deaf Times , which he was for some years up to his death . |
| 12 | Membership of the National Deaf Club tended to attract those deaf people of a certain social standing , and included S. Bright Lucas ( who was the first President ) , wealthy businessman A.J. Wilson , the artist Thomas Davidson , the editor of the British Deaf Times , Joseph Hepworth , explorer and photographer Henry Newton-Lowry , and the type of activities pursued tended to reflect the membership : chess , table-cricket , tennis , badminton . |
| 13 | Miss Wise was a strong supporter of the B.D.D.A. and wrote a number of articles for the British Deaf Times , mostly about travel in France . |
| 14 | Social events for example were organised for the deaf rather than by deaf people themselves , mainly by hearing missioners ; deaf magazines like the Deaf Quarterly News and the British Deaf Times were largely aimed at a readership far too sophisticated for the average ordinary deaf person , written and edited by missioners ; the Guild of St. John of Beverley , an organisation of mainly clerical missioners interested in doing things for the deaf , flourished . |
| 15 | On its appearance as a bi-monthly journal The Deaf Quarterly News ( latterly called The Deaf News ) and The British Deaf Times ceased publication . |
| 16 | Successful he may have been in October-December 1976 at using the full Cabinet as a forum for crisis management , but Callaghan was not tempted to extend the practice in more tranquil times . |
| 17 | More fundamental doubts about the war were expressed by Richard de Bury Bishop of Durham in his Philobiblion , where he said that ‘ war , wanting discretion of reason , furiously attacks whatever falls in its way , and not being under the guidance of reason it destroys the vessels of reason ’ , and he beseeched ‘ the ruler of Olympus and the most high Dispenser of all the world , that he may abolish war , establish peace , and bring about tranquil times under his own special protection ’ . |
| 18 | Gustave used to look back on his summer holidays at Trouville — spent between Captain Barbey 's parrot and Mme Schlesinger 's dog — as among the few tranquil times of his life . |
| 19 | Even in these supposedly progressive times , you might be passed over for promotion or unkindly treated because of your sex or racial origins . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The officials who sent them off from the ports with the loaded railway-wagons gave them rations for the number of days which the grain would in normal times take to its destination . |
| 22 | Given that co-operation and consultation in more normal times was virtually unknown on this lateral basis , inexperience led to many defects . |
| 23 | ‘ In times of emergency we behave differently from normal times , ’ says Meir Edlestein , the director of the Mevasseret absorption centre . |
| 24 | In normal times , that is . |
| 25 | The chief executive of State of Israel Bonds , Meyir Rosenne , says that he expects the issue to sell out in two weeks , something that would take him ten weeks in normal times . |
| 26 | Yevdoxia , who had grown up with the belief that sex was disgusting even at normal times , had refused to take any more of it , ever . |
| 27 | Its accommodation was considerably greater than would ever be needed in normal times , but its nationalistic opulence was intended to come into its own every four years , at the inauguration of successive presidents . |
| 28 | The castle is in the care of the Department of the Environment and can be visited at normal times . |
| 29 | In normal times , nearly 9 million people live in the four provinces of northern Ethiopia : Gondar : Wollo : Tigre and Eritrea . |
| 30 | Money , which in ‘ normal times ’ represented a value in itself , finally reveals itself as an intermediary symbol , without any independent value . |