Example sentences of "popular at [art] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lisa is also incredibly popular at a time when the tide of affection for Diana is turning . |
| 2 | ‘ Nice day ! ’ , in the style of Dickie Murdoch , the comedian in ‘ Much Binding in the Marsh ’ , the radio programme which was very popular at the time . |
| 3 | He went to the woods in Massachusetts as a naturalist , rather than a writer or thinker ; his purpose was to disprove the theory , popular at the time , that plants and trees sprang spontaneously from the ground . |
| 4 | ONE OF FIVE children who father , a bookie , died young , Lenny McLean grew up in one of the tougher parts of London 's East End , left school at fifteen and , as a young man , started to make a few quid in the unlicensed boxing matches which were becoming increasingly popular at the time . |
| 5 | Her poems , of which the best known was ‘ The Blind Ploughman ’ , were very popular at the time , and many of them were set to music and performed at public concerts all over Britain . |
| 6 | Gesualdo 's later madrigals , however fascinating their scent of decadence , are an evolutionary dead end ; Monteverdi was taking part in the transformation of the madrigal into something quite different , though in view of his dramatic and pictorial ability it is strange that he neglected to produce one of those suites of madrigals popular at the time ( comedie armoniche ) realistically describing women gossiping at the wash ( Striggio 's Cicalamento delle donne al bucato , 1567 ) , Venetian scenes ( Croce 's Triaca musicale , 1596 ) , or a complete commedia dell'arte ( the Am–parnaso , 1597 , of Orazio Vecchi ( 1550–1605 ) , the outstanding masterpiece of this genre ) , and a whole series of works by Banchieri . |
| 7 | But erm , the people like and the left , did n't like the book either , because it did n't tell their particular interpretation , as kind of left Marxist er , interpretation as someone has it , was so popular at the time . |
| 8 | These also lay out the range of tempos for minuets popular at the time , ones by Handel ( slow , 3/4 , dotted minim = 46 ; fast , 6/8 , dotted crotchet = 68 ) and Geminiani ( fast , 3/8 , dotted crotchet = 59 ) . |
| 9 | Cos that so song was popular at the time ! |