Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the twelve days before Christmas a black cloud hung over the Ramseys . |
| 2 | 2 Provide any dressing equipment needed for the early days after discharge . |
| 3 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 4 | SOME WAYS OF TRAVELLING are synonymous with luxury and romance and evoke nostalgic yearnings for the great days of travel when black tie was de rigueur as the traveller sauntered through Europe and Asia , or crossed the oceans . |
| 5 | Despite popular laments for the great days of Herbert Morrison and ‘ municipal socialism ’ on the LCC , such Tory bugbears as the Merseyside authority and the Greater London Council disappeared from the scene . |
| 6 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 7 | Besides myself there were three other passengers , but they all disembarked at Rarotonga , and after that , for the three days at sea before we reached Koraloona , Robins and I were more or less on our own . |
| 8 | Given the strong emphasis on children with special educational needs during the early days of PNP it was not surprising that many collaborations concentrated their attention on these children . |
| 9 | Was this th during the early days of electricity in the in the area ? |
| 10 | Problems during the filming in Sweden included no official stills photographer to take publicity pictures during the early days of production , a fire at the hotel used by cast and crew , some film damaged during processing- and thick snow . |
| 11 | addresses the attitudes of successive governments towards scientific endeavour , ranging from active encouragement during the Napoleonic days to indifference in the post-Restoration era . |
| 12 | The question of forming an independent union had sharply divided delegates during the five days of debate , despite having been approved in principle at the first congress in June [ see p. 37617 ] . |
| 13 | The decisions taken during the 13 days of crisis were momentous ; as Kennedy and those around him realized , one false move would lead to nuclear war . |
| 14 | Mr Yeltsin was absent from the chamber during the four days of debate . |
| 15 | A spokesman for the hospital said ’ During the four days in question Mrs License had an intravenous drip supplying all her essential nutrients . |
| 16 | She had not before entered the Tower precincts , although its grim-visaged exterior as seen from the river , particularly during the dark days of winter , had frequently given her a sense of foreboding . |
| 17 | Similarly , Mr Yeltsin , like Mr Gorbachev , was born into a peasant family during the calamitous 1930s and came to political maturity during the first days of Khrushchev , when hope began to dawn after Stalin 's long night . |
| 18 | Nowhere seemed to be safe from the searching French guns ; during the first days of March one regiment lost more men while behind the lines in reserve than during its assault on Haumont Wood the first day of the offensive . |
| 19 | However , during the two days of talks on Sept. 5-6 both Prime Ministers presented their proposals for easing political and military tensions within the Korean peninsula . |
| 20 | Despite the deployment of 100,000 paramilitary troops and police , to forestall what Army Chief of Staff General Mirza Aslam Beg had claimed on Oct.1 was " an extremely dangerous " plot to disrupt the elections , 39 people were reported killed in separate incidents during the two days of polling . |
| 21 | For the next week or two there would be work enough for the rivermen , and they would shoulder their way into the dining rooms during the coming days for mugs of steaming tea and coffee , thick bacon sandwiches and thick slices of new bread liberally coated with dripping . |
| 22 | During the 12 days of Christmas , women stopped spinning only to start again on Distaff Day . |
| 23 | The Justices of the Forest were to drive the deer from all disafforested districts into the remaining forests during the forty days after disafforestment : after the expiration of that time places put out of the forest were to be exempt from the operation of the Forest law . |
| 24 | During the 30 days of training at Wokingham , Pete and Andrew became the best of buddies and Wendy accepted a delighted Andrew 's marriage proposal . |
| 25 | Rebecca had silk slippers on her feet , with the device that the King had granted the Everards embroidered on them : it had amused her , during the serene days between squalls on the voyage from Plymouth , to sit on deck and stitch the image of the seamonster harnessed by the naked man , halfway up to his waist in water , while natives in feather skirts cavorted on the shore behind . |
| 26 | During the last days of May 1967 the United States reached an understanding with Israel , clearing the way for the latter 's attack on Egypt on 5 June 1967 . |
| 27 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 28 | During the last days of Knight 's governorship there was a significant change within the central management of the AFPFL . |
| 29 | Chrysanthemums , poinsettia , corn , coffee and others flower during the shortening days of autumn and are known as short-day plants . |
| 30 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |