Example sentences of "[art] days [adv] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The days when water authorities could allow their supplies to seep into the ground are definitely at an end . |
| 2 | The Government , he says , must go back to the days when school meals were available for every child . |
| 3 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 4 | Gone are the days when dessert fruit which was n't fit for the mansion dining room was doled out by the head gardener to his hard-working bothy boys . |
| 5 | In my years as a professional warrener , in the days when gin traps were permissible , I used to expect an almost daily kill of ground predators while trapping burrow systems . |
| 6 | In the days when hummingbird feathers were fashionable costume accessories , the plumage hunters of Trinidad used to imitate the hooting of owls to draw the unfortunate hummingbirds towards them and to their deaths . |
| 7 | Much of the old three-letter ‘ Q ’ code , devised in the days when wireless telegraphy was the standard form of air-ground communication , has fallen into disuse , apart from the familiar QFE , QNH , QDM and QDR . |
| 8 | Miners were represented by elderly and fairly conservative MPs who had worked their way up the union hierarchy in the days when mining areas were controlled by the Liberal Party . |
| 9 | And er I lost touch with her after that but Joyce was very nice , very , very a down to earth cockney girl from Hockston and she said er she 'd tell her sister she said I do admire my sister she said they 'll never have anything other than a council house , I do n't suppose but she said my brother-in-law mends people 's motorcycles as a side line and the money that he gets from that he gives her most of it and she buys things on hire purchase , this was the days when hire purchase was n't fearsomely expensive |
| 10 | Gone , it seems , are the days when rock stars caused major scandals by being caught with dangerous drugs . |
| 11 | Heavily drawn from the days when rock writers wore leather trousers and believed that rock would save the world . |
| 12 | The days when bank managers ranked with doctors in local communities because of sound advice and fair treatment of customers have long gone . |