Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How Does the Tsar Drink Tea ? ’ ; the chilling story , from the old days in the shtetl , of the night Great-Grandpa Rosenbloom heard the robbers climbing through the window ; two cracked choruses of ‘ The People 's Flag is Deepest Red ’ … |
| 2 | Presumably one thought that , in the early days in the universe as it were , the atoms and molecules that existed were very simple ones ? |
| 3 | Indeed , the only person whose company seemed to detain the worldly , elegant Colonel was the Reverend Nicholson , with whom he had contracted a conversational friendship based , it appeared , on a mutual zeal for the discussion of the profoundest spiritual matters — the power of prayer , the meaning of the Three Days in the Tomb , the date of the origin of the world , the precise division of responsibilities between the Holy Trinity . |
| 4 | ‘ This is one of the better days in the history of the motor dealing industry . |
| 5 | According to government figures issued on Dec. 1 more than 270 people were killed in several simultaneous attacks by rebels on Nov. 23 and in fighting over the succeeding days in the capital Bujumbura and in the north-western provinces of Cibitoke and Kayanza . |
| 6 | Flavia was working ; the long days in the tower were intact , only in the evening she set out for the house on the other bay ; the difficult hour at the cafe was cut , even writing became bearable . |
| 7 | It is kin , often , who provide shelter during the first days in the town and who help the migrant build his/her own home . |
| 8 | Distress is an anachronistic remedy surviving from the earliest days in the history of the lease . |
| 9 | Identify the qualifying days in the week of sickness . |
| 10 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 11 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 12 | What you need is a break or a holiday so count your pennies and weigh up your chances of a few days in the sun or short spell staying with friends . |
| 13 | After a few days in the nest , however , the chicks will peck more at the herring gull model ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 14 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 15 | After a few days in the cave , he entered the farmhouse , saying that his end was close . |
| 16 | It 's best to store the panelling for a few days in the room in which it will be used , to allow the moisture content of the wood to settle before installation . |
| 17 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
| 18 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 19 | ‘ After a few days in the gym here I would wake up and hope that the sparring partners would not turn up . |
| 20 | In the old days , when Margaret Thatcher was still a chemist , and John Major was John Major-Ball , most MPs and many Ministers stayed away from the Party conferences , regarding it as a necessary vulgarity , an annual opportunity for the spear-carriers and party bit-players to travel to a seaside resort out of season to spend a few days in the proximity of the great . |