Example sentences of "in [adj] days it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The basilica was badly damaged in the ninth century earthquake , and in Medieval days it was used , like the Colosseum , as a quarry for building . |
| 2 | How many hundreds or thousands of those gallons were tipped into the saucepans the report does not reveal , but certain it is that in these days it is not at all uncommon to find dishes of chicken , langouste or lobster flambé au whisky on the menus of French provincial and Parisian restaurants . |
| 3 | In later days it became fashionable to see Chaplin as a political rebel against Hollywood 's factory methods but he is better seen as the last of the old-style showmen offering a highly polished product to the masses that he felt he knew so intimately . |
| 4 | And er in later days it was called the School . |
| 5 | In 2 days some benefit was detectable : in 4 days it was obvious . |
| 6 | In those days it was full of horrible camp types dancing to limp disco . |
| 7 | In those days it was common for industrialists to go to the United States to learn how major companies should best be run . |
| 8 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 9 | Men have always been hung up on breasts , especially American men , and in those days it was the only part of the body which could be shown . |
| 10 | In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town . |
| 11 | Before quotas , about 50 per cent of the food energy going in to our dairy cows was in the form of cereals : food that could be directly used by man , because in those days it was cost-effective to get as much milk as possible out of individual cows . |
| 12 | ‘ In those days it was a pound made , a pound spent , ’ says Philip , whose proud boast is that he started off without any outside financial backing . |
| 13 | In those days it was a pro-Labour paper and once it was owned by the TUC . |
| 14 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 15 | I used to do the Countess 's hair , and she was pleased with me ; in those days it was a matter of a great many curls , and diamond clasps and the like , on ladies ’ heads . |
| 16 | I turned up at the Comedy Store here in London one night , petrified , because in those days it was a pretty testing place with a drunk , unruly audience . |
| 17 | In those days it was easy to offend : the establishment liked its Monarch of the Glentype pieces over its Adams fireplaces . |
| 18 | Adam suspected that these days Rufus might be quite fastidious about wine , a wine snob even , the kind that savours bouquets and talks about nice little domestic burgundies and so forth , but in those days it was plonk he wanted . |
| 19 | In those days it was estimated to be guarded by some three hundred Hezbollah fanatics and , despite being a single-storey construction , it was known to have several basement levels . |
| 20 | So jail is not new to him , in those days it was an accepted way of life . |
| 21 | In those days it was printed in Paternoster Place in the City . |
| 22 | In those days it was the haunt of crocodiles and hippopotamus , both symbols of evil in the iconography of ancient Egypt . |
| 23 | In those days it reflected his ability in bed . |
| 24 | Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life . |
| 25 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 26 | In those days it was in demand , and expensive . |
| 27 | There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side . |
| 28 | But that was another thing nowadays they , they just do n't seem to bother at all if the mother gets torn , now in those days it was a terrible disgrace to g to er if you had a , had a delivery and the mother was torn . |
| 29 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 30 | In those days it was unusual for an Australian to train in Britain . |