Example sentences of "but in [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 2 | Some scientific ‘ wets ’ will not want to soil their hands with ‘ blood money ’ ; but in these days of financial stringency , every professor owes it to his department to get in there and pitch for Pentagon pennies . |
| 3 | He weighs more than Joe Frazier but in these days of the super tanker heavyweights like Bowe and Lennox Lewis , he 's lacking in competitive firepower , even if his heart is totally disproportionate to his size . |
| 4 | Erm but in these days erm I think that managements were in the main er fairly well off as far as employees ' attitudes were concerned . |
| 5 | But in these days of fuel economy and concerns about speeding why should such a super car be developed . |
| 6 | Tirana home service radio initially denounced the hunger strike as having " nothing to do with a loyal strike struggle " , but in subsequent days the radio detailed the hunger strikers ' demands and deteriorating health , and by June 1 had swung round to emotional support for them and for the UITUA . |
| 7 | Today rucsacs can be delightful to carry , a world apart from my heap of the 1960s , but in those days I really did not like backpacking . |
| 8 | Nowadays , I would probably have a complete reverse opinion and say , ‘ Well done , David ’ , but in those days I honestly did n't care . |
| 9 | ‘ But in those days there was always someone in the house , and when were you ever content to sit with your feet on a footstool never moving a finger ? ’ |
| 10 | But in those days things were different : appointments had to be consensual . |
| 11 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 12 | Even today Scots tend to be wary of clever women ; but in those days , to be young , female , tall , beautiful , witty , talented and intelligent — and a Queen — was like writing one 's own death warrant . |
| 13 | In the early 1960s I remember caddying for Brian Huggett and Peter Butler , but in those days we caddied for many players . |
| 14 | Poor kids , but in those days youngsters had their wits quickly sharpened by such antics . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | These were small victories , but in those days of darkness they gave the High Elves some hope . |
| 17 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's easy to edit now electronically , but in those days , where editing was done by looking down a microscope for a metal ink pulse , cutting the tape physically with a guillotine and then joining edges together with sticky tape , it took a very long time and could be very wasteful . ’ |
| 19 | Many believe he should have had a career in professional soccer but in those days , as now , top scouts were unaccountably remiss in visiting ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 20 | I mean today , you 've got to be an educated man to know how to even , they 've got er tractors and everything , but in those days you 'd got to set your plough furrow out so as you you could run your plough down your first one , and then as you as you ploughed your first furrow out you 'd got to plough your next one into it . |
| 21 | I should have taken the set back and demanded that the shop or manufacturer replace it , but in those days the attitude was that it was a privilege to buy something , and it was just your bad luck if it turned out to be faulty . |
| 22 | Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life . |
| 23 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
| 24 | But in those days th they did n't . |
| 25 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
| 26 | He was in any case visibly touched that I should have gone to the lengths of copying the essay ; but in those days no other method of putting him in possession of it was available . |
| 27 | I would n't do it now because I , ever since that , that woman was on the train was stabbed and thrown out , I would n't go alone on holidays now but in those days , well maybe I was a lot , course I was younger then but you never heard of such things |
| 28 | So that was the journey waybill and that was handed in at the end of the day and from that and a visual check of the tickets that were returned by him to the ticket office , they could tell which tickets were missing and therefore they were sold to him and er there be , there was the odd shortages but in those days if anybody was short in his takings by , I think it was about sixpence in those days , he was the subject of a another warning by letter and if he persisted , well then he was brought in to see the Traffic Superintendent who erm , could suspend him for two or three days , so he lost pay for two or three days . |
| 29 | But in those days you did n't have many visitors at all . |
| 30 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |