Example sentences of "those days [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 In those days no freedom of contract meant clubs had long serving players .
2 Altogether different was Vivian Bowden , now Lord Bowden of Chesterfield , in those days a man of frenetic and driving energy .
3 The electricity cable laying to give 'em a job so you could play for the Ipswich Electric Supply Team and we had a jolly good team , we won the cup for the first three years that it was in being but the finals used to be on Portman Road and course that was in those days a thing to be looked forward to .
4 The difference being , of course , that in those days the phenomenon of semi-literacy did not exist and readers of Disraeli 's or Thackeray 's novels would neither mistake them for the real world , nor read them to the exclusion of all real political texts .
5 It is a mark of the extraordinary faithfulness of St. Mark to the historical situation of the life of Jesus that he does not read back into those days the experience of the Spirit to which he and his friends were used in the post-resurrection era .
6 In those days the number of overseas students was smaller than at present , and one competent young man , with a foreign sounding name , graduated .
7 In those days the Fellows of Corpus were rather proud of the briskness of their conversation .
8 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 .
9 In those days the names of intelligence chiefs were guarded by the D-Notice system so British newspapers tended not to publish them .
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