Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] days [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although in earlier days Oakridge had its cottage weavers , the mill was built specifically as a silk mill , the business run by a number of different concerns . |
| 2 | Bill remembers that in those days lecturers learned the job slowly . |
| 3 | He immediately rang the Oxford Mission sisters , and by the time we reached them in a taxi they had beds prepared and a doctor called , and in two days Mig was well again . |
| 4 | One hopes not ; the best series between the two was that of 1963 , and in those days cricket teams had a balanced attack . |
| 5 | But in those days things were different : appointments had to be consensual . |
| 6 | Poor kids , but in those days youngsters had their wits quickly sharpened by such antics . |
| 7 | playing football , but in those days Corby steel works |
| 8 | The money involved was a considerable sum , but in those days Dunedin was New Zealand 's commercial capital and many big businesses were represented on the Otago CA . |
| 9 | He first decided to go into manufacturing because when he finished his design training in the early 1980s there were few jobs available simply because in those days industry , by and large , saw no call for designers . |
| 10 | There was once a little tailor , a good and unremarkable man , who happened to be journeying through a forest , in search of work perhaps , for in those days men travelled great distances to make a meagre living , and the services of a fine craftsman , like our hero , were less in demand than cheap and cobbling hasty work that fitted ill and lasted only briefly . |
| 11 | If I had n't been pregnant I would have been sent back to Bullwood , but they have n't got a mother and baby unit there , though in those days Styal was only for women over twenty-one , apart from the pregnant borstal girls . |