Example sentences of "as in [art] days " in BNC.

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1 The ‘ north — south divide ’ became a familiar part of popular folklore as in the days of Mrs Gaskell .
2 As for the women , the government seems not to regard them as human beings at all , unless as in the days of the British Empire the fact that they are women can be used to deny them basic rights or torture them in special ways .
3 If a woman be delivered and bear a man-child , then she shall be unclean for seven days ; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean .
4 Goebbels 's rhetoric that ‘ the German people has never looked up to its Führer so full of belief as in the days and hours that it became aware of the entire burden of this struggle for our life ’ , and that far from being discouraged ‘ it stood all the more firmly and unerringly behind his great aims ’ , sounded even emptier than usual .
5 Second , the cause of the problem has been clearly identified as nomads and graziers who are politically very weak , and who have had much of their livelihood taken away and upon whom the heaviest penalties for ‘ trespassing ’ on forest schemes fall — in the same way as in the days of the Emergency , when aggressive family planning ‘ drives ’ herded vagrants , petty thieves and other vulnerable groups into camps for more or less forcible vasectomy .
6 As little in our day as in the days of Job can man by searching find this Power out . ’
7 His eye had regained its clarity , and his head its proud poise , as in the days when Norbury had accompanied him in his Prussian crusade with the Teutonic knights , long ago .
8 As in the days of slavery there seems to be two Jamaicas divided by class and colour .
9 As in the days of the Onedin Line , the welfare of the crew is paramount .
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