Example sentences of "and in [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Thatcher has a new party chairman , Mr Baker , who worked for Mr Heath , and in former days was a notorious wet . |
| 2 | In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , syllabubs were sometimes made with the juice of Seville oranges , and in these days we can devise cream and wine or cream and fruit-syrup syllabubs to suit ourselves . |
| 3 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 4 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 5 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 6 | One hopes not ; the best series between the two was that of 1963 , and in those days cricket teams had a balanced attack . |
| 7 | The earliest discoveries in mathematics were made by the great physicists and astronomers in the course of their work , and in those days great scientists had to be great mathematicians . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | And in those days you had to have fifteen years ' training before anyone would really look at you . |
| 10 | The symphonies are full of difficulties and in those days the orchestras had not always the resources we have today . |
| 11 | Hard to return for seven days and in those days churn up the past and curdle precious memories . |
| 12 | Our lodging was not free , as it was for our service colleagues ; we paid one guinea a week , and five shillings for transport ( which we could scarcely avoid ) , and a fixed regular sum for meals necessarily taken in the canteen at B.P. Nor did we receive travel warrants for our three-monthly seven-day leaves ; and in those days when civilian travel was frowned upon we had no uniform to prove that our journey was really necessary . |
| 13 | And in those days if you were old and if you were poor , … that was the end of the road . |
| 14 | The lawn climbs a slope several yards in front of the summerhouse , and in those days , as today , four flagstones embedded into the grass served as steps by which to negotiate this climb . |
| 15 | The car was No. 25 , one of the small Milnes cars and in those days a ‘ Lorry ’ was a flat truck drawn by horses . |
| 16 | India in 1793 was largely a Hindu country and in those days dominated by the ceremonies and superstitions of that religion , rigidly divided by a caste system into which a person was born and could not escape . |
| 17 | I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing . |
| 18 | It still overlooks a bridge and in those days there was also a causeway to take the traveller over the marshy ground beyond . |
| 19 | Well they always started the lads right at the pit bottom and in those days ev everybody was crackers down there in those days , they were all mad , tearing about . |
| 20 | Yes , oh aye I Yes , we You had to measure , and in those days , the councils were grouped in what they called Assessment Committee Areas , and each were wor making sure the other areas were using the same sort of basis . |
| 21 | He was what we called a School Board man as well he was , that was his official capacity , and in those days if you were n't at school they used to erm send a man round to see where you were , you know and why were n't you at school ? |
| 22 | And in those days erm I , the Co-op had got a building society as well you see , so it all tied up and I think mother , you know , I , I think it was a very good shop , I mean it was er so . |
| 23 | It did n't bother me , I knew I was engaged to be married , and in those days as soon as you were going to be married you left your job … that is the only thing we girls had to look forward to , getting married and going on our own , getting our bottom drawer together and things like that … |
| 24 | And in those days we required the money and er often , very often we had to do it to strengthen our wages a bit . |
| 25 | It , we never sort of slackened off at all and in those days there was so much brass to be cleaned and scrubbing to be done and cleaning . |
| 26 | And in those days most people did have their children at home , did n't they ? |
| 27 | ‘ I started training modest horses and in those days you could make it pay by running them in selling races . ’ |
| 28 | Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six . |
| 29 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |
| 30 | the thing and in those days they used to have the punched cards , you know , erm they still have this |