Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
2 | Snowdrops are shady favourites for the dark days of late winter |
3 | For the six days up to and including Wednesday , no trains had reached Armenia from Azerbaijan . |
4 | 2 Provide any dressing equipment needed for the early days after discharge . |
5 | In Jesus the Spirit destined for the messianic days , the days of salvation , had come to stay . |
6 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
7 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
8 | This brought an access of homesickness , not for the Yorkshire moors but for the English language , and also for the long days of last summer 's play , for Alexander Wedderburn 's blown-rose full-blooded verse on the Elizabethan terrace at Long Royston , English summer evenings . |
9 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
10 | Only this weekend , I had a telephone call from a distressed daughter who pointed out that her mother , who was widowed 18 months ago , had just received a threatening letter saying that , if she did not pay £11 for the 16 days between 1 April and 17 April 1989 , during which her husband had been alive , poinding action would be taken against her . |
11 | For the first days , weeks even , I carried on in a light-headed and even giddy way . |
12 | Despite popular laments for the great days of Herbert Morrison and ‘ municipal socialism ’ on the LCC , such Tory bugbears as the Merseyside authority and the Greater London Council disappeared from the scene . |
13 | SOME WAYS OF TRAVELLING are synonymous with luxury and romance and evoke nostalgic yearnings for the great days of travel when black tie was de rigueur as the traveller sauntered through Europe and Asia , or crossed the oceans . |
14 | There has , however , been some revival of the device , especially with modern private presses affecting a fondness for the past and for the great days of the colophon , beginning with the great Mainz Psalter of Fust and Schoeffer in 1457 . |
15 | How I got round for the four days of the tournament , I do n't know . |
16 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
17 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
18 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
19 | Those who earn £43 a week or more will lose benefit for the whole of that week — even if they work only part of it and are unemployed for the remaining days . |
20 | Nigel tarted himself up for the two days before her visit . |
21 | For the two days of the show I cluck round them — soothing , calming , encouraging and reassuring . |
22 | for the two days |
23 | Bryan Bland is a ‘ well-known bird watcher ’ ; we ( the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds Leicester Group ) had borrowed him for the two days of a winter weekend . |
24 | I , I would normally say to you now , right what 's your objectives for the two days , but to be honest if we do that , er , I do n't think it helps very much , erm , but if anybody wants to make any comments about any specific part of it , er , then I 'll try and just talk you through it . |
25 | When evidence relating to the Cleveland end of the project is complete , the hearing switches back to Northallerton for the final days . |
26 | Thanks again Bangor fans for the best days of my life . |
27 | I guess his leaving coincided with my dad stopping taking me to Elland Road so maybe I 'm just been sentimental for the happy days when I could get a parentr to pay for the tickets ! ! |
28 | The existing constitution stipulated that in the event of the president 's death , the vice-president must act in place of the president for the ninety days which would elapse before an election could be held . |
29 | The lowering of interest rates last year provided extra spending power for the family but , as Mr Ingram , 34 , pointed out , that will probably now just be kept back for the rainy days to come in 1994 . |
30 | This looks like a set for The Happiest Days of Your Life . ’ |