Example sentences of "[adj] days it " in BNC.
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| 1 | By injecting the drug into the carotid artery on different days it is possible to observe the effect of disruption of left and right hemispheres alternately . |
| 2 | In the old days it needed a team of 20 women to do the equivalent job — and even then they did it less than half as fast . |
| 3 | In the old days it had taken six horses to haul a vehicle the two thousand yards from the bottom of the brae to its top . |
| 4 | Apparently in the old days it was the place where tenant farmers paid their rent to the estate . |
| 5 | For instance , even today they both use the same gauge guitar strings because in the old days it was cheaper to buy one gauge in bulk . |
| 6 | IN THE old days it was so simple . |
| 7 | Though in the old days it had been she who had braved her mother 's disapprobation and slipped out to enjoy herself , while her sister stuck grimly to her books and her duty and her long-term plans . |
| 8 | In the old days it was hard to get an audience with the Shah . |
| 9 | In the old days it had carried a full complement of aides , courtiers , ministers , secretaries and bodyguards . |
| 10 | In the old days it was quite simple . |
| 11 | In the old days it had all seemed worth it — she 'd enjoyed filling stockings and wading through a carpet of toys and dressing the tree and singing carols when they were little . |
| 12 | On clear days it was like flying over an Atlas map of the British Isles and I picked out all the familiar landmarks in about two hours , which had probably taken me days to cover by sea . |
| 13 | Some days it 's louder than others , that 's all . ’ |
| 14 | On some days it is easy to eat very little , on others it is difficult to keep to even the most generous diet . |
| 15 | ‘ When I play , some days it 's off , some days it 's on , and I take it for what it is . |
| 16 | ‘ When I play , some days it 's off , some days it 's on , and I take it for what it is . |
| 17 | The annexe has few refectory facilities , and on some days it seems that the queue for the coffee machine snakes endlessly around the corridors . |
| 18 | Some days it was a deformity , a stigma that proved she had sold her humanity . |
| 19 | Some days it was tragedy , some days comedy . |
| 20 | And then I decided very reluctantly to have an excavator and for three and a half days it worked down there and erm created a sort of Black Hole Calcutta and put all the stuff it had taken out , it spewed around so that it , there was just mud and no water . |
| 21 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 22 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 23 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 24 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 25 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 26 | It was near the end of August , and for the last few days it had been like high summer . |
| 27 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 28 | Quite a few days it had taken Madeleine , this sewing . |
| 29 | ‘ These last few days it 's been like a kind of magic carpet — we 've been so close , living on a heightened plane . |
| 30 | The message I got was that the last few days it did n't matter a bugger what it cost but we were in desperate straights to get in stock . |