Example sentences of "was [adj] [prep] [art] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The later association of stern Protestantism with teetotalism was impossible before the days of tea , coffee and drinking-chocolate . |
| 2 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 3 | Philippe was quite correct , I had n't taken my pills and it was one of the days when I did rather need them . ’ |
| 4 | This Whit Monday morning was one of the days when she woke up , aching to begin the day . |
| 5 | Although the low position of the buck was convenient in the days of the sail , it was also very dangerous . |
| 6 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |