Example sentences of "[art] old days [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example … / in the old days a man of my standing would never have gone to the shops ; everything would be sent to his house : grain , chillies , cotton , cloth . |
| 2 | In the old days a man could be left to languish in prison uncharged and forgotten . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the old days the journey took nine or ten days by camel . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ In the old days the agency head knew every one of his staff . |