Example sentences of "of [art] past [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps so too does the silence of the past 4 days . |
| 2 | This is a Greek work for love , and so instead of celebrating the eucharist , we shared this meal of love and friendship which brought in themes of the past two days — seizing the day . |
| 3 | This had been the pattern of the past two days . |
| 4 | Bombay : Heavy institutional buying signalled a rebound from the losses of the past three days . |
| 5 | Yet I can not share in the triumphalist chatter of the past three days , so reminiscent of 1987 . |
| 6 | Perhaps because she now has a set of causes to attach to the peculiar incidents of the past several days , from her inexplicably word-perfect rendition of an Aramaic drinking song to the appearance of demonic names on the optician 's chart . |
| 7 | The events of the past few days have led several ministers to recognise the difficulty of restoring full authority to the Chancellor while the Prime Minister persists in her hostility to the EMS . |
| 8 | FINANCIAL markets displayed little enthusiasm for Nigel Lawson 's speech to the Tory party conference yesterday but were prepared to grant the pound a respite from the hammering of the past few days . |
| 9 | That had always been the constitutional position , he said , but the big demonstrations of the past few days had proved that he had a popular mandate too . |
| 10 | Marie had not taken in the events of the past few days . |
| 11 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 12 | There was something subdued about the evening after that , as if the full significance of the events of the past few days was oppressing both of them . |
| 13 | Pie day had dawned bright and clear but tons of straw and cinders had to be hastily brought in as vehicles and people sank in the mud caused by the torrential rain of the past few days . |
| 14 | The drama of the past few days in Kabul has highlighted the two central problems of modern Afghanistan : one is the difficulty of finding a balance between the dominant Pathans and the array of other ethnic groups , Tajiks , Uzbeks , Hazaras and others who occupy the northern and western parts of the country ; the other is the tension between modernising élites in Kabul and the largely tribal rural population . |
| 15 | Duncan McCrea was still in residence , as if overlooked in the mayhem of the past few days . |
| 16 | The anxieties and misgivings of the past few days disappeared as though they had never been , as Johnny kissed her and touched her and told her of his need for her ; of his despair when she had not come to him . |
| 17 | Events of the past few days have pointed yet again to the pressing need to abolish the television licence fee and leave the BBC to fend for itself financially . |
| 18 | While he welcomed this new-found enthusiasm for Broadstairs after the gloomy events of the past few days , this rowdy pink-faced band , hardly recognisable as the distinguished gathering of Literary Lionisers , was not to his taste . |
| 19 | All the sound and fury of the past few days has been a desperate diversion designed first to draw attention away from the unemployment figures , the inflation figures , and the figures for businesses closed and homes repossessed ; and , secondly , to draw attention away from what the Labour party is actually saying , and for the simplest of all reasons — they know it makes sense . |
| 20 | He said : ‘ The killings at Castlerock are a further grim addition to the statistics of terrorism of the past few days . |
| 21 | But first , a look at the events of the past few days . |
| 22 | After the disruption of the past few days , all now seems quiet . |