Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] the days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most spreadsheets were designed back in the days when 640KBytes was the maximum amount of memory that was available . |
| 2 | The first prisoners had come here in the days when the state of war between England and Germany was still largely theoretical . |
| 3 | Verily , the game has moved on from the days when Bobby Locke could , for instance , win seven tournaments in his baptismal year on the US circuit , and four Open Championships on this side of the Atlantic , and yet virtually never feel the need to depart from his habitual draw . |
| 4 | Athletics , too , had moved away from the days when black sportsmen in the USA were forbidden to compete against whites . |
| 5 | People did broadcasts , and if they wrote books , or gave talks on books , these books were all to be found in the BBC Library , along with a fine technical collection and an unrivalled political section , dating back to the days when Guy Burgess ran their first Parliamentary programmes . |
| 6 | After violent storms the haul will often include valuable items dating back to the days when drowned sailors on the local beach was commonplace . |
| 7 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 8 | Another famous hillside figure harks back to the days when , according to legends , giants walked the land . |
| 9 | Jon , as he proudly watched the Union Jack raised above his head , must have thought back to the days when , as Oxford University Boat Race president , the only flag he looked at was the skull and crossbones which hung in his study with a menacing message written underneath : ‘ Death Zone — No Prisoners . ’ |
| 10 | I used to walk between the two parts of the building — that is between my studio/study and the main house — and stare up at the pulley that hangs over the hall , an imitation of the one that hung there in the days when a real miller hoisted his sacks of grain . |
| 11 | It goes back to the days when people used to worship heavenly bodies as gods . |
| 12 | This goes back to the days when there were hop gardens at the rear of the pub , and picking was done by gipsy families ( shant being an old gipsy word , meaning to drink ) . |
| 13 | The very important interest JCI has in the diamond industry goes back to the days when Barney Barnato , together with Cecil Rhodes played an important role in the establishment of De Beers in Kimberley . |
| 14 | This had been proposed in an earlier draft which was condemned by journalists as seeking to introduce " curbs … such as journalists did not experience even in the days when the CPSU was all-powerful " . |
| 15 | Our grandmothers grew up in the days when women rose at dawn , laid the sticks and lit the fire . |
| 16 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 17 | The cover was made of leather and went back to the days when mankind used animals for food and clothing . |
| 18 | I fret often for the days when I lived and worked in the countryside , but one sad sight used to be that of herds of demented idiots vandalising the scenery and terrorising nature in their delirious lust for an innocent animal 's life . |
| 19 | Second World War gas masks , tin helmets and posters on treating burns and what to do with incendiary bombs were left over from the days when each factory had a fire watch and some even had a home guard . |
| 20 | He started looking into corners for the bugging device , though he said he was searching for a stray cigarette , left over from the days when he smoked . |
| 21 | Florida is the shock of the new jutaposed with '40s and '50s kitsch and the magnificent turn-of-the-century beachfront resorts that date back to the days when the Northern grandees , steamer trunks and servants in tow , would descend by private rail to the exclusive enclaves of Sarasota , Palm Beach and Miami . |
| 22 | He said : ‘ We 've got to get back to the days when Elland Road was an intimidating place for teams to visit . |
| 23 | Places like the Giant 's Rock near Zennor , the Giant 's Quoits on the coast east of Land 's End and the Giant 's Grave north east of Penzance , all hark back to the days when the big people supposedly ruled . |
| 24 | ( The name dates back to the days when all home electronics was a horrid brown colour — now it is an almost nasty black ) . |
| 25 | If the building is turned into a pub the distinctive glass canopy , which dates back to the days when it was a garage , will be retained . |
| 26 | My own earliest memories of Winnie , stretch back to the days when — following in the tennis footsteps of her mother , Winifred Mason , who became Scottish champion twice , she was winning British junior championships titles . |
| 27 | ‘ The pattern of construction has changed considerably since the days when Lithgow was laid out . |