Example sentences of "[art] last days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the last days of the old tradition , I suppose and I 'm glad I was lucky enough to be part of them . |
| 2 | Having saved the sports car company and turned himself in at the end of series one , Clive Owen led off the second series in 1991 completing the last days of a prison sentence and abandoning the city slicker lifestyle for a battle to save a bankrupt stately home . |
| 3 | This belongs to the last days of 1870 , more than a year after the murder in the park . |
| 4 | It was his decision , for example , to shift a military pay day to 29 September , one of the last days of fiscal 1989 , from 1 October , the beginning of fiscal 1990 . |
| 5 | The ice disappeared from the Volga in the last days of April , when steamers , tugs , and barges converged at Tsaritsyn on the warmer Lower Volga to transport supplies up the river and its tributaries . |
| 6 | I 'm worn out with all the go of the last days , ’ Rose said . |
| 7 | Perhaps they were the last days before the final eclipse . |
| 8 | I certainly feel it was a great delight to him during the last days of his life . ’ |
| 9 | Pop is hysteria , a neurotic symptom of what may well be the last days of Western capitalism . |
| 10 | In the last days of 1990 a new scandal broke . |
| 11 | A sense of an ending , a millenarian impulse perhaps , a fear that the Last Days are coming . |
| 12 | The 1990s are likely to see the last days of the political baronets . |
| 13 | When , in the last days of November , a telegram arrived she knew what it must contain and trembled as she held it in her hand . |
| 14 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 15 | As we wandered across the Széchenyi Bridge towards my hotel , László pointed out that in the last days of the Nazi occupation , Admiral Horthy had protected the Budapest Jews . |
| 16 | In the last days , with the Red Army approaching , groups of Budapest Jews had been rounded up , more or less at random , and taken to the embankment of the Danube where they were shot . |
| 17 | The great danger of the last days of the campaign is that those voters who wish to punish the Tories , but do not want Labour , may not understand the situation . |
| 18 | Only if the burden becomes insupportable — or increases too abruptly — do electors seriously complain ( as they did in the last days of the 1964 and 1974 Labour governments ) . |
| 19 | In the last days , when the press concentrated on Mr Kinnock 's hubristic progress round the land , few noticed Mr Major 's growing confidence . |
| 20 | In a reverse image of Mr Major 's public appearances , as the Labour leader 's belief in victory grew in the last days , so his studied calm and restraint slipped away , and a fatal hint of the ‘ cocky Welsh boyo ’ marked his public performances . |
| 21 | In the last days of the GC , there was only one regular daytime passenger train surviving , the York-Bournemouth . |
| 22 | During the last days of May 1967 the United States reached an understanding with Israel , clearing the way for the latter 's attack on Egypt on 5 June 1967 . |
| 23 | Of course it had belonged among those unhappy mad thoughts which she had had in the last days . |
| 24 | Ludens had , as it seemed to him with helpless fascination , seen , in the last days , perhaps more obscurely weeks , his feelings about Irina undergo a transformation . |
| 25 | But in the last days of 1879 a frightful storm blew the bridge down as a train was crossing , and 75 more people lost their lives . |
| 26 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 27 | One was The Last Days of America , the other The Fall of the Russian Empire , both set in the future . |
| 28 | After studying in Vienna with Hummel and with Simon Sechter ( whose other pupils included Schubert , in the last days of his life , and Bruckner , half-way through his ) , Thalberg 's career as one of the leading virtuosi of his days was already well established by the time he moved to Paris . |
| 29 | He will merely be remembered as the man who told us , as the Minister of Energy during the four-day week in the last days of the Heath government , to clean our teeth in the dark , for heaven 's sake . |
| 30 | Although the last days of the dying year were bitterly cold , there was no more snow . |