Example sentences of "a time [Wh adv] woman " in BNC.
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| 1 | Did they represent a time when women gathered apart from men , experiencing their own primal potency , and sharing their own secrets with one another and with the pubescent girls ? |
| 2 | But there was a time when women as doctors , judges , engineers , police or newsreaders seemed unimaginable . |
| 3 | Such books were published mainly in the 1920S and 1930S at a time when women had to learn to take over the running of their own homes , without the help of servants any longer , but still keeping middle- and upper-class standards . |
| 4 | There has never been a time when women were not interested in politics … |
| 5 | Determined to honour the family tradition of social responsibility , she forgot her various ailments , put aside her various unfinished manuscripts , and took on the onerous commitment of managing one of the most important zinc factories in the United Kingdom at a time when women were virtually excluded from the boardrooms of business and commerce . |
| 6 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |
| 7 | The Governor , John Thomas-Ferrand explains how the prison was designed at a time when women did not work in all-male prisons , now 20% are women , yet they do not have their own shower facilities , for example . |