Example sentences of "the days [adv] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local people , however , often speak of Dent Town as a reminder of the days when Dent had the greater status . |
| 2 | The days when water authorities could allow their supplies to seep into the ground are definitely at an end . |
| 3 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 4 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 5 | It stated that British university teams , currently working there are ‘ a far cry , mercifully , form the days when English ( and Scottish ) milords sent Greece 's antiquities home by the shipload ’ . |
| 6 | Gone are the days when dessert fruit which was n't fit for the mansion dining room was doled out by the head gardener to his hard-working bothy boys . |
| 7 | These were the days when cricket put its best foot forward . |
| 8 | Perhaps above all , the closeness of the relationship between husband and wife is often valued more for itself than in the days when marriage was seen mainly as the road to Procreation or when economic and family convenience dictated the union . |
| 9 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 10 | Some of us are even old enough to remember the days when Maths was fun , not the ponderous THEOREM . |
| 11 | I remember the days when bit meant a bird , but not the sort you 'd find in the same cage as the sick parrot . |
| 12 | Many of the older packages were written in the days when memory was a pricey commodity and only allow small models to be created . |
| 13 | In the days when hummingbird feathers were fashionable costume accessories , the plumage hunters of Trinidad used to imitate the hooting of owls to draw the unfortunate hummingbirds towards them and to their deaths . |
| 14 | Much of the old three-letter ‘ Q ’ code , devised in the days when wireless telegraphy was the standard form of air-ground communication , has fallen into disuse , apart from the familiar QFE , QNH , QDM and QDR . |
| 15 | She thought of the days when art was a rich man 's pastime and voluptuous whores took the back stairs to Burne-Jones ' studio to be recreated in the image of Cleopatra for tuppence ha'penny an hour . |
| 16 | Although the bird was native to America , its name may have evolved from the days when turkey was first distributed in England by Turkish merchants . |
| 17 | Miners were represented by elderly and fairly conservative MPs who had worked their way up the union hierarchy in the days when mining areas were controlled by the Liberal Party . |
| 18 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 19 | EVEN THOSE students of Italian Catholic politics enchanted by Byzantine matters are nostalgic this autumn for the days when schism was a simple affair . |
| 20 | The book concentrates on the good old days of airliners , flying Dakotas over the Himalayas , rope starting the Dak when all else had failed , Avro Yorks on the Rangoon-Singapore route , an undercarriage collapse on an Ambassador at Southend , transporting horses in a Bristol Freighter ( known to all as the Frightener ) , and tales like these fill the pages taking the reader back to the days when flying was still an adventure . |
| 21 | In the days when unemployment in parts of East Cleveland was up to 90 per cent , Tippett was invited to direct musical activities at special work camps set up at Boosbeck , largely to cultivate rough land . |
| 22 | These were the days when rock was being shooed out in disgrace , a lumpen confusion of scratched armpits and muddled motives . |
| 23 | Gone , it seems , are the days when rock stars caused major scandals by being caught with dangerous drugs . |
| 24 | Heavily drawn from the days when rock writers wore leather trousers and believed that rock would save the world . |
| 25 | The cover was made of leather and went back to the days when mankind used animals for food and clothing . |
| 26 | Gone are the days when Grandma lived down the road and Auntie Maud was just around the corner , each of them providing a comforting and experienced shoulder for the young mother to lean upon . |
| 27 | A lot of the misconceptions stem from the days when catgut and braided nylon was the stuff you tied your hook to ; when nylon monofilament was something new and therefore not to be trusted . |
| 28 | Sally had a great capacity for love and a down-to-earth quality that Harriet presumed was a throw-back to her early upbringing and which had been honed and tested in the fire when she had given birth to — and kept — an illegitimate son in the days when illegitimacy was still a scandal . |
| 29 | The days when bank managers ranked with doctors in local communities because of sound advice and fair treatment of customers have long gone . |
| 30 | Hunter Howerton , an American secret service agent , has been reminiscing about the days when counterfeiting was a specialist art form . |