Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary was a steady , reliable , unspectacular right-back , who joined the Palace at Alan Mullery 's instigation in January 1983 and certainly helped to bolster our somewhat suspect defence in the trying days of the early mid-1980s . |
| 2 | Angie recalls how , in the high-flying days of MainMan , David turned to using drugs and how their marriage started to crumble . |
| 3 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |
| 4 | Finding a hot and filling breakfast that 's acceptable during the eight days of the Passover is n't easy . |
| 5 | ‘ This ’ , Mrs Danby was saying , ‘ is one of the greatest days of my life ! ’ |
| 6 | For even in the darkest days of two-party Tory and Labour domination , the flame of hope burns brightly here , ’ he said . |
| 7 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 8 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 9 | But Bella Latimer , she decided , was the kind of woman who would go on getting what she wanted even in the darkest days of the war . |
| 10 | But even in the darkest days of the war , there was time to laugh , especially over the Government issue underwear . |
| 11 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 12 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 13 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 14 | But there were those who remembered the cruel days of Aenarion 's court in Nagarythe and they doubted that any child who grew up there could be entirely wholesome . |
| 15 | He tried to tell himself that it did n't matter , that you could find the same situation all over the West End ; back in the long-lost days of sweetness and light he could remember taking his wife to a performance of Jesus Christ , Superstar when it had gone through so many cast changes that no-one was even bothering to count , and what a bunch of wankers they 'd been . |
| 16 | ‘ We hope people will come and take the chance to remember their wedding day , one of the memorable days of their lives . ’ |
| 17 | We 've classified 12 types of present-giver — one for each of the 12 days of Christmas , plus health hazard rankings , with top scores of 10 . |
| 18 | What happened to the 12 days of Christmas ? |
| 19 | Financial consultant Richard Bateman totted up all the gifts in the song The 12 Days of Christmas to come up with the hefty bill . |
| 20 | During the 12 days of Christmas , women stopped spinning only to start again on Distaff Day . |
| 21 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 22 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 23 | None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich . |
| 24 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 25 | Bill : There 's something I 'd like to mention before we go too far away from the halcyon days of the gay movement . |
| 26 | The contrast with the halcyon days of Italian family capitalism in the late 1980s is stark . |
| 27 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 28 | Times change ; the magic of those last lingering minutes of twilight on one of the longest days of the year , still remains . |
| 29 | These were the high days of ‘ square-dancing ’ . |
| 30 | As Alcuin looked back from the high days of his own collaboration with Charlemagne , which also involved his many pupils who became bishops and abbots , he obviously saw a model of this relationship at the York of his younger days , when Eadbert ruled Northumbria while his brother Egbert was archbishop of York and built up the cathedral library . |