Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] those days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm what else do you remember as as different about those days and and nowadays ? |
| 2 | Oh yes oh yes in my thirty odd years erm looking back now it must have been primitive in those days really . |
| 3 | There were very few birdwatchers , about sixteen in the county , and it was quite different in those days — there was none of this rushing around the countryside , 2,000 people going to look at a rare bird . |
| 4 | Besides , she was different in those days . " |
| 5 | But you know medicine was , was very different in those days . |
| 6 | Either , that time was substantially different in those days , let us say that a minute then , would be equivalent to an hour and a half now ; or that somehow Shakespeare had ‘ time on his side ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Some of them are nearly six foot , ’ I said , ‘ And here I am , very small , very short , ’ and I was very slim in those days . |
| 8 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 9 | It was the John and a very big factory in it 's day , in as much as it was er four storeys high , rather high in those days for heavy machinery to be on level like that . |
| 10 | So was the s the family standard of of living reasonably high in those days ? |
| 11 | So they were pretty high in those days . |
| 12 | Erm the work that I became , as it happened , mostly concerned with was the erm granting of major scholarships as they were then called which subsequently became called County Awards and er which were attainable in those days only at universities |
| 13 | Anything of quality was exciting in those days , for the usual run of food was of a dullness today hardly comprehensible . |
| 14 | He learned quickly and at the age of 19 met Samuel Bradbury , a noted local cricketer , in a single-wicket contest , so popular in those days , for a ‘ substantial wager . ’ |
| 15 | You had to be very careful in those days . |
| 16 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 17 | These compromises , resulting in records which were considered musically acceptable in those days , mean ethical decisions when we come to play them back today ; should we even try to restore the original ‘ fidelity ’ ? |
| 18 | Water was cheap and unpolluted in those days . |
| 19 | The roads were so empty in those days that you really could enjoy driving it fast . |
| 20 | a compassionate employer — compassionate by those days ' standards , not by today 's standards . |
| 21 | And she er she , she a lot of midwives were extremely clever in those days . |
| 22 | Were the conditions in the mines quite dangerous in those days ? |
| 23 | So you your end of Sunday came about half past eight when the church closed down , cos services did n't start too early in those days , at six thirty , I think . |
| 24 | We all scared real easy in those days ’ . |
| 25 | It was a great shock to him , though , after years in the House of Lords , to encounter once more the bear-garden of the Commons : he was unprepared for the shock of the sheer weight of noise from the opposition benches ( which were more crowded in those days ) . |
| 26 | He began to look pale and sad in those days , and he was often in the village pub , drinking and talking to the people there . |
| 27 | My art was far from perfect in those days ! |
| 28 | Er , and I mean , as was conventional in those days , you educate , your sons went to school and you try and , educated your girls at home , but the , the aunt put her foot down and said she would n't do it . |
| 29 | It must have been very hard in those days for parents with a large family and a very low income to clothe their children . |
| 30 | I had to be hard in those days , she thought . |