Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] days the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 2 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 3 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 4 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive had driven away about 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 5 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive had driven away about 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 6 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive drove away 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 7 | In the early days the Manning conference was quite an informal one day session , but as the service grew and the numbers of boats and crew members complicated the issue it was found necessary to extend to two days . |
| 8 | In the early days the communities as well as the state welcomed the mining companies with open arms , expecting to share in the bonanza promised by mining . |
| 9 | ‘ In the early days the underwriters were God , particularly the mariners . |
| 10 | Very gifted , but in the early days the ensemble was not always very good . |
| 11 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 12 | In the early days the Clash often went hungry . |
| 13 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 14 | None of us really knew what we were going to see , and in the early days the tapes were rather artificial because the lessons were all so well prepared , the kids knew they were going to have a video in the classes , it did n't mean that they were always well behaved ! |
| 15 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |
| 16 | In the following days the strike rapidly spread across the city and workers were joined by white-collar employees , teachers and students in mass demonstrations which converged on the city centre . |
| 17 | In the old days the journey took nine or ten days by camel . |
| 18 | In the old days the boys learned to step on two bricks . |
| 19 | Erm I know it 's associated with over extraction of water at certain points but but be that as it may , but in the old days the Sussex Lands Committee er used to be er a county function and did take an overview erm of the whole West Sussex scene in terms of what happened erm it is now really now erm not our responsibility , although we put members on it , it 's a now fairly weak er joint body but it 's pretty toothless . |
| 20 | ‘ In the old days the presenters were stars in their own right . |
| 21 | ‘ Look , in the old days the Mamur Zapt was responsible for bloody everything in the city . |
| 22 | ‘ In the old days the agency head knew every one of his staff . |
| 23 | In the old days the surgeon made an incision in the lower portion of the tummy and reached the enlarged gland that way , but before the coming of antibiotics it was quite common for infections to develop or for the prostate to turn cancerous . |
| 24 | In the ensuing days the President 's health was closely monitored and , after a further burst of accelerated and irregular heart activity on May 7 , it was announced on the following day that the source of Bush 's condition was an over-active thyroid gland . |
| 25 | Even up to the final days the movement of the young fish can be seen by using a strong eye-glass . |