Example sentences of "and [prep] [adj] days [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The siege commemorated in my nursery rhyme took place in 1761 : an English fleet cut off supplies to the citadel , and after 38 days the garrison surrendered . |
| 2 | The penicillin injected into Julia 's veins four times a day killed the infection inexorably , and within three days the oxygen tent had been removed and she was sitting up in bed waiting for her meals with real hunger . |
| 3 | The gods smile on those they intend to destroy , and within three days the parchment we bought up was carted down to de Macon 's cog and hoisted aboard . |
| 4 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 5 | The symphonies are full of difficulties and in those days the orchestras had not always the resources we have today . |
| 6 | A stretch of mown grass lay between the palings and the road , and on hot days the children left their stony playground and lay and rolled on the grass just outside . |