Example sentences of "those day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In those days there was a small core of paid research staff who were responsible for a large number of countries — if you did the Soviet Union , you were also responsible for Eastern Europe and half of Western Europe as well ! ’ |
| 2 | Did you think of yourself as a classical actor in those days ? |
| 3 | Since those days she has done a great deal of work with Steven Berkoff — particularly in his play for two people , Decadence which she has played in London , Los Angeles and Dublin . |
| 4 | Good headlines did scream at you in those days . |
| 5 | Also , and I do n't want to go on about this , I was a lonely person in those days and I had very little else to think about . |
| 6 | In those days , spinsterhood was seen as a mark of personal inadequacy , and I , as they probably all realized , was being left on the shelf . |
| 7 | I saw a lot of both her and John in those days as I saw my parents most weekends and they often went round on Sundays as well . |
| 8 | In those days , a bag of soot purchased from the local chimney sweep was a valuable aid to bug control . |
| 9 | In those days quite a number of Diamond heights were attempted in large shower clouds and cumulo nimbus , whereas very few are flown today because of the unacceptable risks involved . |
| 10 | Moreover , he had added to his possessions a piece of luggage of inestimable value for now - and for the next 30 or so years : his Olivetti 22 portable typewriter , which he had bought in London for £40 , no small investment for those days . |
| 11 | I knew Oscar would have preferred a quieter , less raucous venture , on a weekday perhaps , but I had to work on certain days and those days came up during his visit . |
| 12 | In those days the major brewers were busily promoting keg beer , a chilled , filtered and pasteurised apology for traditional draught beer . |
| 13 | ‘ Nobody south of Perth had heard of malt whisky in those days , ’ he said , ‘ so I took a bottle and six glasses into my final crit . |
| 14 | The summit itself is crowned by a trig pillar , a huge cairn , and a walled shelter along with the remains of a celebratory tower built in 1838 to commemorate Victoria 's Coronation , but wrecked by revelling locals after the opening — there were problems with vandals even in those days ! |
| 15 | Male chauvinism was rife in medicine in those days , and he is forgiven . |
| 16 | Probably , in those days , I was a bit of an ideological innocent — shamingly , I even singled out for praise the ostentatiously populist action of one member of the national executive . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | In 1924 , the All Blacks undertook internal matches against Auckland and Manawatu as preparation for a European tour and promptly lost 14-3 to Auckland , who in those days were nothing like the force they are now . |
| 19 | Of course , Tory politics has changed a great deal since those days . |
| 20 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
| 21 | Things had certainly changed since those days back in England . |
| 22 | They are usually those days on which your employees are required by their contract to work for you . |
| 23 | They 've come a long way since those days though — the soles of that pair were completely worn through after 400 miles walking in the Andes so that I ended up walking in my socks ! |
| 24 | He worked hard , which was rare among the undergraduates of Magdalene College in those days , and came out with a high degree in mathematics . |
| 25 | They had four children and not much income and in those days believed like the rest of the middle class that they could only find a good education for their boy at an independent fee-paying school . |
| 26 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 27 | He had one side of him , in those days , which suspected modern science because of its part in the process of industrialization , and its philistine attitude , as he supposed , to literature . |
| 28 | He dedicated this formidable intellect to eradicating nonsense from the world , especially nonsense in divinity , which was a world where in those days he could find plenty of targets for his scorn . |
| 29 | It stands six miles outside Oxford , in lovely and in those days remote country , with one bus a day . |
| 30 | They proceeded up the Huntingdon Road at about 20 m.p.h. or sometimes 30 m. p. h. , a suitable pace for cars and roads of those days . |