Example sentences of "in those days it " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days it was full of horrible camp types dancing to limp disco . |
| 2 | In those days it was common for industrialists to go to the United States to learn how major companies should best be run . |
| 3 | It was very little money really , but to me in those days it seemed like a lot . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In those days it was a picturesque village a couple of miles from the pleasant and compact town . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | In those days it was a pro-Labour paper and once it was owned by the TUC . |
| 9 | ‘ Royal Glyn-Neath ’ , we call it , although in those days it was only a little nine-hole course . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In those days it was easy to offend : the establishment liked its Monarch of the Glentype pieces over its Adams fireplaces . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So jail is not new to him , in those days it was an accepted way of life . |
| 16 | In those days it was printed in Paternoster Place in the City . |
| 17 | In those days it was the haunt of crocodiles and hippopotamus , both symbols of evil in the iconography of ancient Egypt . |
| 18 | In those days it reflected his ability in bed . |
| 19 | Nowadays , people would n't put up with those circumstances , but in those days it was accepted as a fact of life . |
| 20 | In those days it was considered bad form even to slap you on the back . |
| 21 | In those days it was in demand , and expensive . |
| 22 | There 's a walled cemetery on one side and well in those days it had railings round the cemetery on the other side . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | But er not really seriously because you see in those days it , it was illegal for anything like that . |
| 25 | In those days it was unusual for an Australian to train in Britain . |
| 26 | In the recession of the early 1980s this service suffered immensely through poor sales and ultra high terminations — in those days it was said that washroom would be the hardest hit in any recession because it was not seen as an essential service ; much confidence was , then lost in the service . |
| 27 | Yes I , you see , in those days it was quite different |
| 28 | No , no just went in ordinary civilian wear , girls sometimes had some overalls because they were handling the ticket boxes , they were metal , they got wet , they rusted up and that was a filthy job for there was really , in those days it was a two box system , a man drew his box which contained a certain amount of tickets of different variable classes and erm , it was listed on a waybill , he was given a half an hour to check his box and join his bus at town centre . |
| 29 | Penny , tuppence , three ha'penny returns and every denomination of tickets was recorded so that you so showed the erm number of tickets , erm it was possible for a at the end of the week to record what the takings were , per route and the mileage and so , as I told you before , the mileage played a great importance in that you were able to say how much that route was producing per mile run and the erm , in those days it , the erm the receipts worked out , daily receipts , weekly receipts and the progressive total in that year , were always published by the Ipswich Evening Star , round about Tuesday or Wednesday and if you missed them , there 'd be somebo member of the public ringing up to why , answer why you had n't put it in , it was , you know , looked upon then you were , were public transport and the public team that you belonged to them . |
| 30 | but in those days it was n nobody thought i you know it was the done thing . |