Example sentences of "[conj] the [adj] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at home there was the secure place in the family business and , important among the priorities of a 22-year-old , the dreamy days on the Belfast Lough with the Royal Ulster Y.C. , or the lazy days on the Royal Belfast G.C. fairways . |
| 2 | A man who became 40 just before or just after 1 January 1986 is much more likely to contribute a death to the numerator than a man who became 40 in the early days of 1985 or the last days of 1986 . |
| 3 | AFTER The Graduate finished shooting , Dustin returned to New York to live quietly with Anne and her daughter Karina in his small Greenwich Village apartment on West 11th Street , having absolutely no conception of how his performance or the film would be received and not fully realising that the long days of anonymity would soon be over for ever . |
| 4 | On the day after Epiphany , Famagusta heard that the treaty had been sworn before the Haute Cour in the Royal Palace of Nicosia , and that the fourteen days of extra truce had begun . |
| 5 | He also stated , however , that the two days of talks had been fruitful and that the Russian government was " much more positive , much more serious " about negotiating a treaty with Japan than had been its Soviet predecessor . |
| 6 | But why ca n't people realise that the early days for a young horse are as vital as our own early learning experiences ? |
| 7 | On the one hand , it seems appropriate that the great days of verba precativa in imperial constitutions should end with Diocletian , for with Constantine came change : he disposed of formalities of language , and from this point on there was no sense in any test to which wordings should confirm . |
| 8 | What they seem to be saying about outcomes of adoption is quite positive but nevertheless we should be warned that the heady days of ‘ no child is unadoptable ’ are in the past . |
| 9 | Although the last days of the dying year were bitterly cold , there was no more snow . |
| 10 | And the two days for this year and the two days for the estate car . |
| 11 | And the two days for this year and the two days for the estate car . |
| 12 | The establishment of the College , and the early days of its life , were described by an anonymous writer in 1793 in An Account of the Veterinary College from its Institution in 1791 ; this is largely a transcript of early College minutes . |
| 13 | The fog came back over and over again that late autumn and early winter , and the dark days before Christmas that year were very dark indeed . |
| 14 | And the ten days after open day are going to be mad . |
| 15 | As time grew short and the last days of peace slipped away , he began to make arrangements for his departure . |
| 16 | Sidonius Apollinaris and the last days of the Empire |
| 17 | And the seven days at the low dose and then I 'd like you to go onto the slightly higher dose , which is still a low dose , |
| 18 | There was no water laid on , of course , but the early days of fetching water from the village pump were succeeded by the excitement of a pump inside the house . |
| 19 | While the early days of autumn lasted , it seemed as if she might settle down . |
| 20 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 21 | Wool has been an important product of the region since the earliest days of home spinning and weaving produced a coarse grey cloth known as ‘ hodden ’ . |
| 22 | Since the earliest days of stepping motor development a large number of designs have appeared , but it was soon realised that if the motor is to produce a significant torque from a reasonable volume then both the stationary and rotating components must have large numbers of iron teeth , which must be able to carry a substantial magnetic flux . |
| 23 | Ever since the earliest days of the University , Arts departments have been active in extending higher education opportunities beyond the 17–21 age group to a variety of mature students . |
| 24 | Ever since the earliest days of colonialism , however , capitalism has developed long-standing mechanisms to integrate such recalcitrant social formations into the global system of production and distribution . |
| 25 | For example , when the forty days of mourning a death are over and the women in the family who have foregone food or combing their hair can start a normal life again , it is their female friends and sisters who cook for them and comb and oil their hair . |
| 26 | As the long days of sunlight drew on Asik became weaker and weaker but he was kept going by an object in the direction of the city which looked like another lorry , but this one was not moving . |
| 27 | As the dark days of winter engulfed the Old World the Chaos armies struck . |