Example sentences of "the [adj] times " in BNC.
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| 31 | She did n't read the English Times or the Irish Times , which were the only two papers that came into the house . |
| 32 | If you do , the participants will play truant anyway — probably at the wrong times ! |
| 33 | Each sect accused the other of wishing to observe the prescribed religious festivals at the wrong times , although in practice they had to keep to the same dates . |
| 34 | It takes effort on the part of the parent but can sometimes help them see that their child is eating more than they thought or eating at the wrong times of day . |
| 35 | The alarm may go off at the wrong times and this can be very irritating but the fault can be capitalized on and the child encouraged to get up and go to the lavatory anyway . |
| 36 | The median times between start of treatment and the final follow up examination did not differ between th two subgroups : 63 days ( range 35–224 ) inthe successful eradication group , 118 days ( range 35–454 ) in the failed eradication group ( 2p>0.50 ; Mann-Whitney rank test ) . |
| 37 | Bishop Wilkins thought that had Baxter ‘ lived in the primitive times , he would have been one of the fathers of the church ; and that it was enough for one age to produce such a person as Mr. Baxter . ’ |
| 38 | To my knowledge , cranks and dreamers have gone around talking about and looking for Homo superior ever since the primitive times when writers still used paper . |
| 39 | The extent of their happiness as they read and wrote , and walked the Dorset lanes , was in proportion to the unsettled times they had often known until then . |
| 40 | The local newspaper , the Mid-Ocean Times , printed a short story about the arrival of Canada 's first ‘ radio columnist ’ and this brought about a radio interview at ZBM , Radio Bermuda . |
| 41 | After the first rotary press was established at the Daily Times , that paper 's circulation soared from 25,000 in 1951 to 55,000 in 1955 ; ten years later , it reached 120,000 copies daily . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | State newspapers are therefore funded out of public money , and there have been attempts to follow the example of the Daily Times , funded from the profits made out of various commercial activities . |
| 44 | Only students of history are conscious of the fact that the Covenanting times lasted for over half a century and that before the end of the period some of the skirmishes were between factions , supposedly on the same side in the conflict . |
| 45 | It had been his responsibility to take all the different times and sightings of Drew , and rationalise them . |
| 46 | If the Althusserian mode of production is made up of differential times and histories , ‘ a complex ‘ intersection ’ of the different times , rhythms , turnovers , etc. ’ , then each element can not express the whole because the whole is only accessible as a concept , which is precisely not expressed at all . |
| 47 | On a day like this you could almost make yourself imagine that the old times were back , when the resort was crammed with holiday-makers for the whole of the summer season and every seaside guest house had a ‘ No Vacancies ’ sign hanging in the window . |
| 48 | These items , and 1,097 more , belong to the Old Times Furnishing Company and will be auctioned by Phillips at the end of this month inside the company 's Putney warehouse . |
| 49 | A sign of the old times round here perhaps . |
| 50 | 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 ’ . |
| 51 | Now , most of us are middle-aged here and we remember the yard and the old times . |
| 52 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 53 | So now , here I am , my love , just as in the old times ! ’ |
| 54 | ‘ In the old times we hijras used to be like your zero zero seven . |
| 55 | But not everyone you know wants of the old times . |
| 56 | ( One of the few times we missed out was with a 200lb sturgeon caught in the North Sea . |
| 57 | One day Tony gets up to watch and witnesses one of the few times when the sun travels across a blue , cloudless sky . |
| 58 | ‘ A mirror , ’ Reynard repeats , realising this is one of the few times in his life he 's been surprised . |
| 59 | It was one of the few times that the pulp glossy pop press produced journalism worth reading . |
| 60 | It was one of the few times he did n't get up and down from trouble , and that put us level . |