Sentence examples for when advent from inspiring English sources

Douglas Brown, the chief executive of Advent International, learned that lesson six years ago, when Advent, which is based in Boston, became one of the first American venture capital firms to open an office in London.

If not, you might remember when Advent terrorized your children -- like when you made them sit on Santa's lap at the mall, and they cried and screamed bloody murder.

The movement collapsed in the mid-1990s, when the advent of effective medicine finally staunched much of the dying.

Those targets grew steadily until the 1990's, when the advent of mobile phones and the Internet touched off exponential growth.

In many ways, the hardy meadows probably resembled those that blanketed the area until the mid-1800s, when the advent of the New York and Harlem Railroad station down the street began encouraging development.

Handel's violin sonatas, for example, have been rarities at violin and piano recitals since the 1960's when the advent of the early-music movement made such performances seem oddly anachronistic.

Mr. Lomax, following his father, came onto the scene at just the right time, when the advent of recording equipment made it possible to preserve a wealth of indigenous music that had not yet been stifled by commercial music.

He became the archetypal crooner of a period when the advent of radio broadcasting and talking pictures and the refinement of sound-recording techniques made the climate ideal for the rise of such a figure.

But even when the advent of long-range fighter escorts made it possible to resume daylight bombing over Germany, their targets were not all that different from Harris's RAF and were not much more useful in defeating the enemy.

The Seventies TV show Charlie's Angels helped to popularise maxi dresses, floral prints, hot pants and flared trouser suits at a time when the advent of jet travel brought ideas from around the world into mainstream women's fashion.

Born in Northern Italy in 1891 at the height of the bicycle craze, when the advent of the "freedom machine" took women into public spaces and on to a parity with men, Alfonsina's family were too poor to own a bicycle.