1.   But computerised turnstile operations have made it almost impossible to fiddle the attendance figures in modern times.

2.   But direct democracy could not survive the size and complexity of the pluralistic, sprawling nation-states that developed in modern times.

3.   If we think those ancient people were silly, we should look to ourselves in modern times.

4.   In modern times, the demands we make have changed in some ways.

5.   In modern times, the issue of paper money or government borrowing from the banks had led to the same results.

6.   In western countries, in modern times, economic growth and expanding public activity have, with rare exceptions, gone together.

7.   It had never happened before, not in modern times.

8.   It was one of the greatest disasters of modern times.