Example sentences of "this [was/were] [prep] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was before the days of the National Health Service . |
| 2 | This was before the days of two-channel stereo records , and the label simply meant to imply that there was spaciousness in the sound on the record . |
| 3 | This was before the days of relatively cheap air flights — in fact such things were n't even thought of by the bulk of the population . |
| 4 | As to what we were going to do in our school holidays , and if I do n't , let's see , the teacher was named , it 's be the fourth class , and er two of us decided we were going to , and this was before the days of hiking as such , we decided we were going to go hiking . |
| 5 | Towards the end of my Baghdad tour I had regular tussles with the group captain in friendly games of tennis , but I was never able to take a set off him , which never surprised me since he was more or less the permanent Inter-Services Tennis Champion in the UK , ( Oddly enough , Jackie Hunter was my station commander early in the war and saved me from the wrath of my Air Officer Commanding — " Maori " Coningham — when I brought my bombs back when everyone else had " found the target " , but this was before the days of the night camera . ) |
| 6 | This was in the days when torpedoes were not missiles that moved underwater , hence the nowadays somewhat obscure meaning of Admiral Farragut 's remark , ‘ Damn the torpedoes , full speed ahead ! ’ |
| 7 | ( This was in the days when four pounds and ten shillings was worth sod all . ) |
| 8 | This was in the days when we were both planning to be great composers . |