Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [art] days [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann found it very difficult to tell , just as she had found it difficult to fathom out the workings of Martha 's mind in the days before she and her twin were married . |
| 2 | The observers of gonorrhoea in the days before effective treatment was available vividly described the symptoms of acute gonococcal urethritis . |
| 3 | As revolution followed revolution , I recalled Neville Chamberlain 's infamous remark in the days after he sanctioned Hitler 's partition of Czechoslovakia : ‘ A distant people of whom we know nothing . ’ |
| 4 | It was true that Mrs Maugham 's moral fervour had had slightly more edge in the days before she herself acquired a television set , but even now she managed to retain sufficient cause for indignation , and the quality of her feeling for Mrs Hanney had changed not at all , though her attacks had been somewhat restricted in scope . |
| 5 | Its importance as a link between Bishop 's Castle and the rest of the world in the days before motorised transport is emphasised by all the recollections of the time . |
| 6 | Of about 100 prisoners who had been on hunger strike since May 1 [ see p. 38179 ] protesting at the government 's alleged failure to free all political prisoners , 17 who were still fasting began accepting food in the days after Mandela appealed to them to abandon the fast , on June 6 . |
| 7 | This suspicion hardened into certainty in the days that followed . |
| 8 | Images of women thrown down , kicked and beaten , men held and knocked senseless by Blackshirt stewards , filled the press in the days and weeks that followed . |
| 9 | Diana had a new sense of purpose in the days that followed . |