Example sentences of "[pron] [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | My few days were intermediate — cloudy , rough , with the reef and turbid water yet to fully recover . |
| 2 | I was generally pressed for time in my few days in Sydney , and did not have the opportunity to explore the graphic potential of the monoline as well s it deserved . |
| 3 | ‘ And how 's that uncle of yours these days ? |
| 4 | In my latter days at school , this old hall became the gym , and we had a new , much larger hall with room for chairs . |
| 5 | The improvement of the quality of work performed by criminal justice personnel through improved training has been much talked about and advocated since at least my own days as a trainee assistant governor almost thirty years ago , and probably well before that . |
| 6 | Her few days in Monaco , relatively untroubled by the Press , not even the paparazzi bothering her , were at an end . |
| 7 | It was a great relief when she arrived at Lomond View to discover that the only person there was Inge , looking rosy-cheeked and happy after her few days ' holiday . |
| 8 | This experience had such a dramatic effect on the Pole that he hanged himself some days later . |
| 9 | In their few days together Thomas had made no reference to that night in the car when he had asked her to touch him , there . |
| 10 | The same muddle is evident in Mathematics , 510 , whose arrangement is practically meaningless to modern mathematicians , and in the artificial separation of closely related topics in physics , mathematics , chemistry and biology , which these days are regarded as interdisciplinary whole subject areas of their own , relating tangentially rather than uni-dimensionally to the general scheme . |
| 11 | People who fail the Church are sometimes made to appear at morning service ‘ as they were first made before God ’ , which these days usually means in their underclothes . |
| 12 | He makes it his business to know what is happening on the street — although he is rarely if ever seen there himself these days — and feeds these spontaneous trends into the crucible of high fashion , to make it fizz and bubble . |
| 13 | ‘ He never thinks of himself these days . |
| 14 | It may be that one of my children might want one or two of them , but nobody these days has the houses to hang pictures in the way Bunny and I have done , and I 've always known that the public will eventually enjoy them . |
| 15 | Anybody can write a biography about a nobody these days , why should Dick and I be any different ? |
| 16 | The individual sounds of other species may not be so readily recognized purely from instinct , though it seems highly likely that the unborn infant , while still in the mother 's womb , especially in its latter days , would be able to hear such external sounds and be aware of its mother 's response . |
| 17 | They know that , if America fails , their own days are briskly numbered . |
| 18 | In fact , the priority of base layers , as most manufacturers prefer to call them these days , is to keep you dry rather than warm . |
| 19 | The others stood and smoked , or twitched or shrugged , or blinked , or nodded , or performed whatever other small compulsion their nervous systems required of them these days . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know what I 'd do without them these days . ’ |
| 21 | We 're quite good at rearing them these days but even so their chances are hugely reduced by being picked up in the first place |
| 22 | Sensible girls are hiring them these days . |
| 23 | yeah , er that 's not many of them these days is there ? |
| 24 | erm So that there are a large number of tropical foresters now who 've been here and gone back to their own country , and one of the things which I point out to them these days is the need for public relations in their own countries , and getting information across to governments and being able to talk to economists and finance people in their own countries . |
| 25 | Only just into three figures , which was nothing these days , and in any case the money could n't have been important . |
| 26 | The truce with Scotland , renewed in 1323 , reduced the need to levy taxes , and opposition was so cowed that , as the Vita commented , it did not surface even when parliament was called : ‘ Parliaments , colloquia and councils decide nothing these days . |
| 27 | If this was not so , why would it get funding ; you do n't get something for nothing these days … |
| 28 | nothing these days goes down well with them |
| 29 | nothing these days goes down well with them |
| 30 | The trouble with everyone these days is that they want constant sensation , to live on the peaks of existence . ’ |