Example sentences of "[art] days [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Romans divided the year into twelve months , and each month into groups of days called respectively Kalends , Nones and Ides , with the days after Ides reckoned in relation to the Kalends of the next month following . |
| 2 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 3 | This year Medau has returned to Cromer which in the days before Norfolk had any training scheme was the venue of the Medau Society 's Summer School . |
| 4 | Paul made a very happy marriage with Muriel Ezra , the widow of a distinguished zoologist , who built up his own private menagerie in Surrey in the days before safari parks proliferated in the English countryside . |
| 5 | It was in the days before soldiers were housed in barracks and were left to their own devices in the taverns and private houses in which they were billetted . |
| 6 | ‘ Ten minutes for refreshment ’ 1892 : passengers bolt their lunch at York station buffet prior to reboarding , in the days before buffet cars were provided . |
| 7 | In the days before M and B , there was no 48-hour wonder cure ; the general would be confined to his bed for at least five or six days . |
| 8 | In the days before packages were available , it was he who wrote the programs for LETGEN ( for letter generation ) and later designed E-Mail ( our electronic mailing system ) and Viewdata ( the facilities used by agents ) . |
| 9 | Those were the days before people dyed their hair bright colours , the days of henna . |
| 10 | Cecilia could clearly remember the days before refrigerators were in general use — she did not have one until 1952 — and remember too the smell of the joint by Sunday lunchtime if you had been imprudent enough to buy it on Friday . |
| 11 | ‘ So , when the bombs start to go off the Western press will put it down to hard-liner elements still yearning for the days before Gorbachev arrived . |
| 12 | In the days before hyperbole was shortened to hype and live boxing was a TV rarity , Cooper had a nationwide following . |