Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] these day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just like any new parent Ron Deacon 's getting little sleep these days . |
| 2 | Much over-played these days , on the other hand , is the Rodrigo Concierto de Aranjuez which turns up along with the Five Preludes for solo guitar by Villa-Lobos , and his lyrical Concerto for guitar and small orchestra ( . |
| 3 | Such players as Clive Allen and Tony Cottee are shockingly under-valued these days because they can not be relied upon to step up their work-rate , to coin a phrase . |
| 4 | Not that he gets much sleep these days , being kept busy by a multitude of projects , which include running Centrestage records , putting together a live disco band , and releasing his own material like the Lifeforce ‘ Disco Fever ’ EP , which sold out its first pressing in one day . |
| 5 | If Michael Peto is somewhat forgotten these days , it is perhaps partly due to his wife 's decision to leave his entire archive to the University of Dundee where , because of limited funding and the Scottish city 's relative geographical remoteness , it is not , for most of us , readily to hand . |
| 6 | Still further varieties and contrasts of tone are available by such mechanical means as the mute ( sordino ) , plucking , ( pizzicato ) , instead of bowing , the strings , ponticello tremolo in which a most eerie effect is produced by bowing the strings nearer to the bridge than the normal position , col legno in which the strings are struck with the back of the bow , giving a sound like the rattle of dry sticks , glissando , much used these days , etc . |
| 7 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's not much used these days , but I think you 'll find it comfortable for your purposes . |
| 9 | Maybe the Sovtelexport agency is no better supplied these days than Russia 's food shops . |
| 10 | Charles Paris was n't a big enough name these days . |
| 11 | The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnamese frontier is the arbitrary point at which South-East gives way to North-East Asia — the industrial powerhouse of the Pacific , the region that most economists and businessmen mean when they idly refer these days to ‘ Asia ’ . |
| 12 | We hear so much talk these days about green issues . |
| 13 | Memory training is much discussed these days , and several popular books have been published on the subject , some with extravagant claims built into the titles . |
| 14 | She says that the video camera is a good idea , especially as the police seem so stretched these days . |
| 15 | What the Victorians and Edwardians accepted , and the law enshrined , as natural privileges due to birth , social connection , and education , are fiercely contested these days . |
| 16 | There was even a theory that trade cycles were associated with sun-spot cycles , but this is not held in much regard these days . |
| 17 | A modern drainage system means that the village rarely floods these days , but the village green , known locally as ‘ The Pond ’ though it was filled in many years ago , shows signs of its former glory whenever there is a heavy rainstorm , and a decent fall of snow , combined with the winds so common to the Wolds , can still cut the village off from the outside world . |
| 18 | The late Raymond Lewenthal is perhaps best known these days as the first performer in modern times to have revived the music of Alkan , a collection of whose music he also published two years after he made these Gershwin recordings ( in Walthamstow Town Hall , of all places ) . |
| 19 | The most important figure in the latter group is Bunting himself , so little read these days that many readers will need to be told that the title of Davie 's history refers to his masterpiece Briggflatts ( 1966 ) . |
| 20 | Her glance flew to the Jaguar , parked where it was always parked these days , and a hint of a smile warmed her mouth . |
| 21 | Perhaps the unemployed were the only people who did any work these days . |
| 22 | Like an old master in the attic , their value is quickly recognised these days . |
| 23 | ‘ I am afraid his scope is a little more restricted these days , Prince . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He 's getting fed up of people coming up to him and saying ‘ Are you still running these days ? ’ |
| 25 | Maisie was the only person to whom Henry ever talked these days . |
| 26 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 27 | This provides many challenges of its own but here we need to look at these facts as part of the question of why handling death apparently needs more help these days . |
| 28 | Because that 's all anyone ever does these days . |
| 29 | And I would always prefer that to the smooth and empty professionalism one so often encounters these days . |
| 30 | There had been a pair using this barn , but , as so often happens these days , they deserted their nest . |