Example sentences of "[art] days [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days for R&D are over : we need demonstration , and so far the Prototype Fast Reactor has demonstrated only that the non-nuclear bits of the technology do n't work particularly well . |
| 2 | But the days of clipper ships were numbered . |
| 3 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not the days of flower power now , whatever you may think . |
| 5 | Anything out of the ordinary aroused suspicion , and a hysteria akin to the days of witch trials led to the construction of sentry boxes and iron ‘ mort-safes ’ bolted across tombs . |
| 6 | But , in the days of computer simulations , it surely makes little sense to crank the whole military-industrial complex up to producing a great fleet of YF-22s . |
| 7 | Before the days of household appliances like washing machines and vacuum cleaners , and before motorized transport , people were more likely to obtain plenty of exercise in normal day-to-day activity . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's getting as bad as the days of cutthroat razors . |
| 9 | The days of anxiety and concern were almost over ; Elinor 's recovery would , of course , be slow , but that did n't matter . |
| 10 | In late 1976 , Radio Telefis Eireann , the Irish state television service , decided to produce a documentary on Lebanon and asked me if I could locate any films that depicted the country in the days of peace . |
| 11 | John Batstone , secretary of the Teesside-based North-East Coast Pension Campaign Committee , said : ‘ We hope the weight of pressure will make British Steel realise that they are being rather immoral in disposing of the surplus , which they inherited from the days of nationalisation . |
| 12 | The days of fun and frolic were gone for good . |
| 13 | Even in the days of precision strikes , attacks from the air would risk civilian casualties . |
| 14 | This was the site of Fair Rosamund 's Bower , once a rose garden , Japanese garden , maze , hermitage and Folly , a trysting place for young people who thought the days of dancing and fox-hunting would never end . |
| 15 | Harold MacMillan , Prime Minister , might still be saying to the electorate that they had never had it so good — which was true in terms of the change-round from post-war reconstruction , wartime destruction , and the days of depression ; but to someone of Leonard 's background , from Canada , the place was a bore . |
| 16 | The Soviets , Iraq 's patron in the days of superpower bi-polarity , were immediately rewarded with a $4 billion Saudi Arabian loan for their vote in favour of the Resolution ; Syria got $1.5 billion from the Saudis and a free hand in Lebanon from the US ; and for their acquiescence , several Non-Aligned States got promises of IMF loans or World Bank credit . |
| 17 | ‘ He has forbidden me to fast or even keep the days of abstinence . |
| 18 | ‘ Gone are the days of dole and he 's pissed off . ’ |
| 19 | PRESENTS could be stunningly original before the days of pop-up toasters and his and hers towels . |
| 20 | Er they er in the days of sailing ships of course they were they were really they were it was really a dangerous place . |
| 21 | He remembereth that we are but dust , the days of man are but grass for he flourishes as a flower of the field , for as soon as the wind goes over it , it is gone and the thereof shall know it no more . |
| 22 | Now , almost ten years , on farmers there say they would not go back to the days of Government subsidies and control over what can be grown . |
| 23 | Those were the days before people dyed their hair bright colours , the days of henna . |
| 24 | More to the point , in the days of reckoning which followed allied victory , William Joyce was the nearest thing to a major war criminal that the British possessed . |
| 25 | The days of reading and resting , of sewing and eating and growing , merged one into the next . |
| 26 | ‘ The days of colonialism are over . |
| 27 | An outstanding example of this sort of pattern in our own field is the synthetic fibre business which , historically , could be considered to have started in the days of rayon at the turn of the century . |
| 28 | It is not since the days of rivalry between Bill Shankly and Don Revie that Leeds have won at Liverpool , and more recently every ground seems to hold menace for the Yorkshire side . |
| 29 | The northwest , before the days of air travel , was not as easy of access as it is today . |
| 30 | Gone are the days of AEC . |