Example sentences of "[adj -er] times " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malekith begins his great period of wandering around the world in search of magical artefacts of elder times . |
| 2 | There is a quick flash of ‘ unhappier times ’ , of a Hawker Hunter attacking a Beirut apartment block in 1958 . |
| 3 | Why do n't we first build buildings in the most economical and obvious way like people did in simpler times ? ’ , the talk is aimed at 15–18 year olds . |
| 4 | In simpler times , all that a top manager needed to move an organization forward was a set of rational tools to solve problems and make decisions . |
| 5 | His testimony before the Senate Banking Committee had one priceless moment of nostalgia for simpler times . |
| 6 | In his speech , the prince returned to a favourite theme — the value of simpler times and the spiritual vacuum created by consumerism — in urging a return to traditional values . |
| 7 | Obesity in later years leads to insulin resistance , and the functional β cell mass , programmed in leaner times , may then be unable to meet the rising demand for insulin . |
| 8 | One day America may find itself facing the last generation of its own weapons , which it had sold to its enemy in friendlier times . |
| 9 | Things would n't have been so bleak , perhaps , if the dramatic rise in population had been brought about by healthier times and a consequent increase in life expectancy ; in the event , many scholars would cite a different cause or causes for it — like the fact that the decline of the apprenticeship system meant that couples were marrying younger , and so increasing the number of child-bearing years per family . |
| 10 | Faced with a slump in orders , or with any problems over the supply of raw materials , he simply could not employ many of those he needed in brisker times . |
| 11 | In those hungry , freezing years she had borne and lost two children in the small sod hut in which they lived , before Olga , coming in slightly easier times , had survived . |
| 12 | I knew that instead of returning — as I had hoped , a year ago — to easier times ahead , with the opera scheduled for transmission and further commissions being made on its back , more difficult times were ahead . |
| 13 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |
| 14 | He insisted that it was a precautionary ‘ belt and braces ’ measure for tougher times ahead . |
| 15 | Well , I 've had tougher times . |
| 16 | The most modern interferometers can obtain spectra in shorter times , but even so they can not deal with samples that decay in seconds , let alone milli- , micro- or nanoseconds . |
| 17 | However , brighter times are ahead , when you will get the opportunity to realise your full potential . |
| 18 | In the spring of 1978 there were signs of the happier times coming to an end , with the pound under pressure and Healey himself attacked for anticipating tax cuts that summer in the budget he introduced in April . |
| 19 | In this Jarman sits , Prospero-like , sniffing flowers as if grasping at a memory of happier times . |
| 20 | We found the local Syrian commander basking on the geranium-smothered patio of the Park Hotel , in happier times the retreat of honeymooners . |
| 21 | I suppose all this would have been welcome in happier times . |
| 22 | Eiji has made extremely long trains to form an arch , the biggest of which he was invited to fly in happier times at Kuwait . |
| 23 | Rather than starting with the current difficulties , it is often possible to begin with the history of the family , perhaps concentrating on more positive , happier times . |
| 24 | ‘ The Family in happier times , ’ Cowley observed , picking up a wedding photograph which he knew to be of the Hatches ' daughter and Jack Stone . |
| 25 | Happier times is right . |
| 26 | He 's allowed generations to totally fuck up , but we 'll see happier times ’ |
| 27 | But we will enjoy happier times . ’ |
| 28 | The ruins of Split in happier times |
| 29 | The answer depends on how much of the slump is attributable to exceptional circumstances whose impact will fade , how much to the business cycle whose fluctuations will bring happier times , and how much to the erosion of Europe 's competitiveness , which may take years to overcome . |
| 30 | Often in films someone goes to a house where he once spent happier times and , slowly , the screen if filled with laughing . |