Example sentences of "it was the time [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think a good example to use with younger people with er pe with pensions as well is that the , the er the cutting down of funding that the government is making and it 's going to be hitting like the younger people and another important thing is like with the , with the Australia issue , I mean in Australia now it 's compulsory for everybody under the age of twenty five to have a personal pension and that r and that age rise is going to , that age limit is going to rise each time because they want to abolish the State pension completely and it was only , what , what about two months ago that there was , that there was er articles in I think it was The Times about them doing a similar operation in this country , you know ? |
| 2 | It was the time of the Miners Strike ; just afterwards . |
| 3 | It was the time of the Baedeker raids , when German bombers struck cathedral towns , and some of the guests who stayed in York the night before had sleepless hours . |
| 4 | It was the time of their lives when they found it hardest to make ends meet . |
| 5 | It was the time of progressive rock . |
| 6 | Cockney Rebel had it a bit , and it was the time of the film Cabaret , The Rocky Horror Show and Biba 's nightclub on the roof of what used to be Derry and Toms Every other phrase in the newspapers seemed to be ‘ Iounge lizard ’ . |
| 7 | Rhetorically , it was the time of the great horticultural images of education , derived perhaps first from Rousseau and reinforced by Froebel , for whom the child was the tender plant growing in the garden , the kindergarten . |
| 8 | It was the time of my own personal greatness , before any human hurt had got in the way . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | It was the time of ‘ the Troubles ’ . |
| 12 | It was the time of the sixty war . |
| 13 | It was the time of wooden pit props and er much kneeling and laying down and hacking away at the coal with picks and there was no mining machinery as we know it now . |
| 14 | When he came to Bristol it was the time of a developing awareness among young people . |
| 15 | It was the time of day when the soul speaks Latin |
| 16 | It was the time of the mods-and-rockers ’ invasion of the seaside towns . |
| 17 | It was the time of Entertaining Mr Sloane , a play Ken did n't at first see himself . |
| 18 | As I say , it was the time of harvest wi , the time of barley harvest when they arrived at Bethlehem . |
| 19 | It was the time for the dissemination and transcription of stories and songs by means of travelling storytellers and poets ; many of these , like Chrétien de Troyes and certain trouvères and troubadours received royal patronage . |
| 20 | Well every bonfire night it was the time for most people to get rid of the fleas and the mattresses and er and bonfire night we used to come just right . |
| 21 | Adaptation to Roman society and culture ; doctrinal self-definition , and organizational solidification : the century and a half after Constantine 's conversion was all this ; but more than anything else , it was the time in which Christians learnt to live in the new conditions of their existence . |