Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gary was a steady , reliable , unspectacular right-back , who joined the Palace at Alan Mullery 's instigation in January 1983 and certainly helped to bolster our somewhat suspect defence in the trying days of the early mid-1980s . |
| 2 | Finding a hot and filling breakfast that 's acceptable during the eight days of the Passover is n't easy . |
| 3 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 4 | But Bella Latimer , she decided , was the kind of woman who would go on getting what she wanted even in the darkest days of the war . |
| 5 | But even in the darkest days of the war , there was time to laugh , especially over the Government issue underwear . |
| 6 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 7 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 8 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 9 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 10 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 11 | Bill : There 's something I 'd like to mention before we go too far away from the halcyon days of the gay movement . |
| 12 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 13 | Times change ; the magic of those last lingering minutes of twilight on one of the longest days of the year , still remains . |
| 14 | The carefree days of the Easter holidays were over . |
| 15 | By Leonard Barden THE EASY Soviet victory in this week 's world team championship at Lucerne recalled the palmy days of the 1950s when the generation of Botvinnik and Smyslov , Bronstein and Keres , outclassed opponents . |
| 16 | The palmy days of the 1930s are treasured , with centrally set statue and a memorial room in Torre Abbey to Torquay 's most famous daughter , Agatha Christie . |
| 17 | This may have held good in the palmy days of the 1960s for some authorities , but even then not for many ( see Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Nothing is barred in the crime novel , however much was barred in the old days of the detective story when , for instance , sexual relations often seemed confined to one person expressing just the discreetest interest in another . |
| 19 | In the old days of the large mental hospitals , all specialist treatment was either provided at the hospital or not at all . |
| 20 | In the old days of the dance halls people could turn up separately and get a dance . |
| 21 | Bert Howe was a consistent , reliable and determined full-back , who signed for us just after Christmas 1958 and first appeared for the Palace in the dark days of the 4th Division , but who proceeded to help us secure a place in Division Two . |
| 22 | Charlie Chaplin was without doubt a major figure during Hollywood 's inception , a star who stoutly refused to play ball with Senator Joe McCarthy 's communist witch-hunt in the dark days of the Fifties . |
| 23 | He had been told that the Chairman had with a handgun shot dead a general who had dared to argue with his strategy during the dark days of the war . |
| 24 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 25 | In the dark days of the Southern Capital under Akhenaten , Nubenehem had told him once , a father who had sold his daughter into prostitution sometime later visited the City of Dreams to watch a session : his daughter , whom he had never touched himself , was one of the participants . |
| 26 | And er we cast during the dark days of the war , when toys were n't available , we a few older blokes er apprentices used to I remember being at it for a couple of hard week we had a hard week , well evening during the evenings anyway . |
| 27 | Since the dark days of the eighties we have consistently sold for less than players were worth . |
| 28 | But before then The Battle of the Atlantic Suite will have been released on compact disc , depicting a Murmansk convoy in the dark days of the war . |
| 29 | In retrospect , it seems that genuine concern on the part of the experimenters was communicated to the subjects to provide a potent source of suggestion that they should suffer symptoms of paranoia and hallucinations , and a cumulative sleep loss over the six days of the experiment combined to provide a fertile ground for the production of these symptoms . |
| 30 | Between them these two young women filled the vacuum of French life in the dying days of the Fourth Republic awaiting De Gaulle 's return to power . |