Example sentences of "these days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These days we have dealt very satisfactorily with the problem ; we have made the rector as poor as the vicar ! |
| 2 | These days we tend to regard the size of a dose of a centesimal remedy as irrelevant . |
| 3 | When you consider that these days we are running well over a second faster , your can see by how much British sprinting has advanced . |
| 4 | More fundamentally , no one knows why sunspots should occur at all — or perhaps these days we should call them ‘ starspots ’ , since similar areas of ( comparatively ) low energy emission have now been detected on the faces of other stars . |
| 5 | These days we are always talking about safety as if being safe is a virtue . |
| 6 | The RAF said : ‘ These days we have a different attitude to signs of stress and battle fatigue than they did , perhaps , in the two world wars . ’ |
| 7 | These days we 're more like the Americans — anyone can do anything and all that nonsense about where you come from and how you speak does n't matter . |
| 8 | ‘ These days we 're absolutely massive pop stars , we have our own separate band bus . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And recently in April , when two young girls from one of the refugee camps in San Salvador were captured , we put their names across on the programme every day until they were eventually transferred from a secret prison to the Women 's prison , We regard it as a triumph to have got them into a public prison , although they are minors , and now we are demanding their release , of course we exhaust all the legal channels as well but these days we just think of it as a formality , There have been occasions when we have presented a Habeas Corpus petition to the Supreme Court of Justice and the official concerned has simply torn the paper up in front of us and told us to get out . |
| 11 | These days we can do it much easier and we do it electrically , so we can use a relationship between conductivity which has to be er compensated for temperature and pressure at which you 're doing your readings , and that gives us a measure of our chlorinity and then that gives us a measure back to our salinity . |
| 12 | We like to entertain , but these days we would n't necessarily offer meat . |
| 13 | The people 's radio told us more real news , but these days we were too afraid to listen to Colonel Stephens . |
| 14 | These days we can joke about it , ask him to turn people into toads . |
| 15 | Like all things these days we have a quality policy statement . |
| 16 | These days we try to be more communautaire than thou . |
| 17 | But i if while we 've got them we will still be there we will still be called to put them out and one of these days we 'll be dealing with bonfires when somebody 's house is on fire and we need to be there instead . |
| 18 | Er it 's not due to my expertise at all , it 's just mainly due to the fact we do n't go to shows these days we 've always in the good old days when we used to go to shows we spent probably a hundred and thirty to two hundred pounds a year so we never had very much money as we do n't go to these shows and spend this money it is it is a it is accumulating each year . |
| 19 | Even the mystique has gone — these days we ‘ professional ’ computer people fall prey to micro maniacs at dinner parties . |
| 20 | These days they meet at conferences like one this week in Prague , sponsored by the Institute for Policy Research and the Centre for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector . |
| 21 | One of these days they 'll just vanish from the face of the earth and never be seen again . |
| 22 | In the past they said men should n't be concerned about their looks and things , but it 's pretty obvious that they are , because boys are always looking in the mirror , and these days they have slicked-back hair and fancy clothes , and that sort of thing . |
| 23 | These days they appear infrequently , but the prospect of a shopping expedition is one of the few things that are guaranteed to bring them out . |
| 24 | ‘ These days they build breaks into them so that if they do knock one over by mistake , it does n't take the whole lot with it . ’ |
| 25 | These days they range from palette knives , sponges , six inch household paint brushes or fingers . |
| 26 | And these days they can look more attractive than ever when matched to hardwood window frames and internal doors . |
| 27 | Originally some of them were painted yellow but these days they are almost always painted flame-orange . ) |
| 28 | Training Ffestiniog slate men one of these days they say there is no more Ffestiniog slate and that 's it its gone bankrupt and er But I mean that can be easily arranged sort of thing . |
| 29 | These days they can cost hundreds rather than thousands of pounds , and drug rings are known to be using them . |
| 30 | In these days they were feared of their job . |