Sentence examples for a more prosperous time from inspiring English sources

By 1985, a more prosperous time, we were already engaging in nostalgia for nostalgia.

The hopefuls filed past a gleaming white pickup truck bearing the department's special recruiting insignia, a relic from a more prosperous time.

With that boom now a hazy memory, brokerage firms are cracking down on infractions that they may well have let slide during a more prosperous time.

Unsuccessful stints at Celtic and Tranmere, either side of a more prosperous time with Jamaica's national team, have not damaged his enthusiasm for the dugout.

Three decades later, in a more prosperous time, the sexy woman in Pop Art paintings by Tom Wesslemann, Mel Ramos and others would personify the consumerist bait and switch.

The gunmen have also attracted the impoverished elderly who have come to remember the era of the Soviet Union as a more prosperous time, when the state took care of their basic needs.

I predicted before he was elected that this would be a much more prosperous time for art and it has been.

But he can still connect with an audience as no other, reminding voters of a happier and more prosperous time, that "end-of-history" period between the end of the Cold War and the ghastly wake-up call of 9/11, when American power was unchallenged and even the federal budget was briefly in surplus.

"I think of it as the erosion of life," he said, referring to the island's many reminders of a busier and more prosperous time: half-sunken wooden work boats, long-vacant houses that often lean at precarious angles and the shrinking of commercial activity.

The Walkie-Talkie can only be truly judged once complete, but it seems unlikely that the perception of it as a bullying presence in the City will change much – a building with its origins in another more prosperous time, now stranded in the wrong place.

Among the most expensive items on sale — a totem of more prosperous times — was an unworn Gucci silk dress that still bore its original sales tag.