Example sentences of "in [art] days when [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So we did , at the Athenaeum , in the days when that club , like most others in London , was rather livelier in the evenings than , for social reasons , it is now . |
| 2 | In the days when increased duty meant an increased tax take , this attitude might just be forgiven , never mind the long-term damage it did to the industry . |
| 3 | A Aequidens rivulatus got its common name back in the days when medium-sized fish were few and far between and by the standards then it was a Terror of an aquarium fish . |
| 4 | Once famed as ‘ Baghdad by the Bay ’ in the days when such an appellation was a compliment , San Francisco has gone the way of many major U.S. cities and is burdened by a high number of homeless and beggars , and rising crime . |
| 5 | Broodthaers , who was an installationist in the days when such work was still rather uncommon , became a guru to a select handful of French and later American artists — but his work remains , oddly , little known in New York . |
| 6 | Stacks of weathering timber stood between them in the days when four thousand men worked in the shipyard at the height of the Napoleonic Wars . |
| 7 | ( This was in the days when four pounds and ten shillings was worth sod all . ) |
| 8 | It was she who had cared for him , and looked after him , too , until he died , and in the bed upstairs in which he had been born , and his father before him , in the days when this house had really been a farmhouse and the land about had been glowing with crops in their rotation . |
| 9 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 10 | This could have been an argument for the theory of the mechanical origin of the sound in the days when some still insisted that it was vocal . |
| 11 | Considered an essential item of diet in the days when hazardous voyages to the islands were made by the Ness men in their open sailing 'sgothan , these days it was sought after as more of a delicacy , in spite of its rather revolting appearance when cured . |
| 12 | He was very kind to both of us , and played with us in the days when older brothers did not expect to play with ‘ little kids ’ . |
| 13 | In the days when most types of beer were dark , wheat brews were seen as being relatively pale and often cloudy . |
| 14 | In the days when most computer systems demanded their own room , ‘ casual ’ theft was n't a problem , but the incredible shrinking PC has increased the likelihood of equipment going missing . |
| 15 | Horne had first made his name on radio in the days when most people still called it the wireless — on another wartime show which supposedly told everything you ever wanted to know about an RAF station . |
| 16 | The flight panel was designed in the days when American firms used to write the names of the instruments on bits of paper , put them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes . |
| 17 | The ample panel ‘ was designed in the days when American firms used to write the name of the instruments on bits of paper , uput them in a hat , draw them out one-by-one and fill in the holes ’ . |