Example sentences of "was [prep] [art] days of " in BNC.

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1 The British Tommy 's good humour will be appreciated by the Burman of today as it was during the days of the Rangoon riots in 1939 .
2 In spite of all the technological developments land sophistication and speed of modern communication , the point of a campaign roadshow is the same as it was in the days of the whistle-stop tour when politicians addressed voters from the backs of trains : to communicate with the maximum number of people in the short time available .
3 ‘ One player is n't going to make a team and international rugby is more about team planning and preparation these days than it was in the days of the great Welsh outside halves . ’
4 John Wain — another Movement novelist — is said to have voted Conservative as early as 1951 , before he ever published a book , as if silently laying down a marker for the future : but then that was in the days of Winston Churchill .
5 The South-East has increased its pre-eminence in both absolute numbers and share of the national population but generally the regional batting order remains much as it was in the days of W. G. Grace .
6 He , or just occasionally she , is , to begin with , the seeing eye of the story , even more so than the Great Detective was in the days of his triumphs .
7 However , as a resource of what is a question in a flagging economy which is unlikely in the near future to be in search of recruits to the labour force from marginal groups , as it was in the days of labour shortage in the 1950s ( Harper and Thane , 1989 ) .
8 What a busy place Shrewsbury Station was in the days of steam !
9 This was before the days of the National Health Service .
10 This was before the days of two-channel stereo records , and the label simply meant to imply that there was spaciousness in the sound on the record .
11 This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population .
12 As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking .
13 Nothing no I 've seen the bread coming out on a Monday morning warm and landed at from the big houses and that was before the days of the cooling of the bread .
14 Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . )
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