Example sentences of "this time succeeded " in BNC.

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1 After several more months as a prisoner of war , he escaped again and this time succeeded in making his way to England in a small boat .
2 His photographs from this time succeeded in capturing the real China in a way that would have been impossible to a foreigner .
3 The industrial and commercial development of England had by this time succeeded in ‘ ruralizing ’ the countryside by reducing the economic viability of much small-scale manufacture and domestic handicraft and transferring it to the new system of factory production in the towns .
4 Again , in the late 1950s , the Soviet Union found itself with a surplus of oil , and this time succeeded in negotiating agreements with Uruguay and Argentina in 1958 , and with Brazil in 1959 .
5 Having been frustrated in her 1988 cruise to Scandinavia , Islander headed north-east once more last summer and this time succeeded in passing through the Limfjord , sailing down the Kattegat and up into the Baltic as far as Stockholm before retracing her steps to visit Copenhagen for the second time on this voyage .
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