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Example sentences for "ordinary times"

  • Recently, too, she had begun to cough and to feel heavier than she had done at ordinary times, so she never by any chance put her foot out of doors, but remained at home and looked after her health.

  • A girl at the Tract House told me they pay better for sewing there than in most other places, and have work all the year, in ordinary times.

  • In ordinary times, there is no difference in the amount of work.

  • In ordinary times, she gives but one hour's instruction at a lesson.

  • I hope we shall have no more cold weather, for garden seed, if those planted failed to come up, would cost more than the crops in ordinary times.

  • This sum in ordinary times, and in specie, would subsist my family twelve months.

  • In ordinary times, the marginal value of this function of money sinks to zero, but in emergencies it may become very great.

  • In general, I think it safe to say that in ordinary times, the manufacturer loses vastly more sleep over the question of how he shall market his output, than he does over the question of how he shall produce it.

  • There are many articles in trade at the present time whose saleability is not much less than that of money, in ordinary times.

  • In ordinary times, that wouldn't be the best way--I'd simply arrange for transfer of your money by mail or cable.

  • In ordinary times I think you'd have a good chance.

  • They are always there even in ordinary times; we do not notice them because they are kept in check; but they are not the less energetic and effective, and, moreover, indestructible.

  • Desertion is very great, even in ordinary times, supplying foreign armies with "a fourth of their effective men.

  • In ordinary times, social and political ideas slumber in uncultured minds in the shape of vague antipathies, restrained aspirations, and fleeting desires.

  • This amount, experience had shown, was necessary to meet exchanges in ordinary times of peace.

  • When they were redeemable in coin this quality might either be withdrawn or retained, without affecting their use as currency in ordinary times.

  • At ordinary times, he is very good tempered; but now, oh!

  • In ordinary times it depends chiefly upon the habits of the community in which the bank is located regarding the use of hand-to-hand money as distinguished from checks and upon the character of its customers.

  • In times of crisis and other periods of extraordinary demand, bank reserves must be much larger than in ordinary times.

  • Production in every line has come, in ordinary times, to outstrip consumption.

  • In ordinary times a soldier's life would be a pleasant one, and he could reckon upon the occasional excitement of war; but such a war as this is beyond all calculation.

  • Yes, there are flat boats that at ordinary times go down to Dresden, with the rafts of timber; but whether you would find anyone willing, now, to make such a journey is more than I can say.

  • In ordinary times, the intercourse between the two is probably close enough.

  • In ordinary times the Bank is only one of many lenders, whereas in a panic it is the sole lender, and we want, as far as we can, to bring back the unusual state of a time of panic to the common state of ordinary times.

  • If it is known that the Bank of England is freely advancing on what in ordinary times is reckoned a good securityon what is then commonly pledged and easily convertible--the alarm of the solvent merchants and bankers will be stayed.

  • But these are only a small part of the securities on which money in ordinary times can be readily obtained, and by which its repayment is fully secured.

  • Far from me to hint that Durand, in ordinary times, snaps his fingers at the gendarmes and laughs at the laws, practices as common in our border departments as unseemly everywhere.

  • The Grand Hotel is of course overflowing, but the prices remain the same as in ordinary times.

  • In the evening, after the service at which this sermon was preached, the Abbe dined with the officers of the regiment and with the socialist mayor of the commune, a thing which would have been impossible in ordinary times.

  • The murder of the socialist leader would in ordinary times have so aroused party hatred that almost civil war would have broken out in Paris.

  • Besides, in ordinary times it is not from the executive that the most dangerous encroachments are to be apprehended.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    absolutely impossible; each occasion; election petitions; old enough; ordinary cases; ordinary consciousness; ordinary degree; ordinary experience; ordinary generation; ordinary light; ordinary matter; ordinary occasions; ordinary people; ordinary seaman; ordinary seamen; ordinary speech; ordinary temperature; ordinary temperatures; retired from; slowed down; surface runways; thou seemest; tradition says; tropical climates; war against; you put