Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] time of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the 1920s were a time of depression , the 1930s were not that much better , and morale amongst deaf people was still at an all-time low . |
| 2 | The early 1870s were a time of prosperity for the trade , and the ETS felt sufficiently confident to present a memorial to the employers in 1871 asking for a further reduction to fifty-one hours . |
| 3 | As a time of transition from autarchy and isolation to developmentalist capitalism and international rapprochement , the 1950s in Spain were a time of ambiguity and uncertainty , in which the first signs of a limited degree of liberalism became visible at the same time as the use of the customary repression made it clear that nothing fundamental had changed . |
| 4 | As I say , it was the time of harvest wi , the time of barley harvest when they arrived at Bethlehem . |
| 5 | This was the time of afternoon when they popped the tar . |
| 6 | This was the time of day he went to Mr Hyde 's farm to fetch the milk . |
| 7 | It was the time of day when the tables were mostly occupied by kids , all dressed to the nines , playing more with the Steve Davis ‘ cool ’ than the St£e Davis ‘ skill ’ . |
| 8 | Well , in theory he was doing what he was supposed to do since this was the time of day he always spent with Katrine and he had been told not to vary the routine . |
| 9 | It was the time of day when the soul speaks Latin |
| 10 | It was the time of suffragettes and Mr Norman McCorquodale was reported as saying that a spray of water through the hose on them would be a good thing . |
| 11 | You 're too young to remember , but that was the time of austerity . |
| 12 | Semenyaka is an honoured People 's Artist , but she agrees : ‘ Our heyday was the time of Diaghilev , Nijinsky and Karsavina , and the fact that they inspired Fokine and Balanchine . |
| 13 | Which was the time of Recovery . |
| 14 | This was a time of peak union activity for many countries , for from Europe provided workers with different organisational concepts . |
| 15 | It was a time of discovery and experiment . |
| 16 | But this was a time of hope , too . |
| 17 | It was a time of darkness . |
| 18 | This was a time of panic , in which one farmer alleged that a thousand of his sheep had been killed by these parrots ; but it is now known that they rarely kill sheep . |
| 19 | But the end of the 1930s was a time of trial for him . |
| 20 | While he was still with them it was a time of celebration and joy . |
| 21 | She explained that Ramadan was a time of reunion , of coming together to withstand the fast during the day and to share support during the night . |
| 22 | The first eighteen months was a time of frustration . |
| 23 | In the spring , he had to have a heart by-pass operation , and that was a time of anxiety and distress . |
| 24 | It was a time of plenty for everyone ; for Gould it was a period of unparalleled excitement and surprises . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a time of freshness and discovery of what acting was all about , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The Trias in this country was a time of desert conditions so that the forms exhumed from beneath its rocks will have to be compared with modern desert landforms . |
| 27 | The construction of socialism , as a recent film about the life of Sergei Kirov had shown , was a time of enthusiasm and optimism , not the period of repression and ignorance of which the script had spoken . |
| 28 | In the main , it was a time of misery which unknowingly strengthened her character and at the same time introduced her to a friendship which resulted in her opening her eyes to another way of life , a life that she recognised and knew she could fit into ; for it was during the first summer holiday that she was invited to spend a day with Annabel at her home . |
| 29 | Added to these was another important element , for the period of the festival was a time of licence : this was a necessary outlet in the community for the tensions repressed after the long period of hard physical toil . |
| 30 | For the office girls it was a time of year when summer is a past memory and a future dream . |