Example sentences of "[adj] day [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 2 | Vega admitted that it was reminiscent of those halcyon days except that ‘ compared to the Clash audience , these guys are just a stream of piss ! ’ |
| 3 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 4 | Well what happened to change in fact this er notion of limited rational wars with the means , ends in balance etcetera , the kind of , of erm halcyon days if you like to which Klausovitz wished to return ? |
| 5 | Donald seemed to be describing the bad old days before Mrs Thatcher , as far as Henry could see . |
| 6 | Consequently , it is rather amusing to have Gergiev tell you that the only thing he misses about the bad old days before perestroika is the order . |
| 7 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 8 | PHOTO-FILE exclusive : this old picture of Doonican shows what the Irish rocker looked like in the old days before he actually joined Happy Mondays as trumpet player . |
| 9 | In the old days before we started building the bridge they used to fetch up on a bend about two miles down . |
| 10 | and erm you 're looking , you 're , let's say you turn up looking at a screen , you 're actually standing up like they used to do in the old days before they had radar |
| 11 | Mr Chatfield , you 've been here for , well , as you say , thirty five years — what was it like in the old days before the university was put here ? |
| 12 | in the bad old days , in the bad old days before high technology caught up with us , when we used to have more literals than in your average your average academic textbook , which takes some doing . |
| 13 | Other such terms , for example free , as in ‘ then we were free ’ , certainly had reference to the past , but carried direct contemporary reference : a man would say of another , ‘ he is a free man ’ , and mean that he took no orders from a superior ; and a man ( asked about his own occupation ) might say with some pride that he was a ‘ free Zuwayi ’ ( zuwayi hurr ) , and imply his condition was closer to the old days than that of most of those he saw around him . |
| 14 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all , you had to a library and to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now presumably it 's just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 15 | mhm And I suppose in the old days if you actually wanted to know which books were popular and which books were not used at all you had to send a librarian to painstakingly look through the shelves , perhaps , and look at the date stamps or something like that , whereas now it 's presumably just a question of pressing a few buttons and the information comes . |
| 16 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 17 | She skipped in the stableyard and jumped up and down off orange boxes in the storeroom and occasionally thought back to her carefree days before Sylvester went mad on their behalf . |
| 18 | FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . |
| 19 | But it has a half-life of just 140 days so there can be little delay manufacture and its incorporation into a bomb . |
| 20 | The talks , held in Washington and originally scheduled for April 2-3 , were extended by two further days as the two countries discussed broader issues . |
| 21 | US trade representative Carla Hills said : ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and are open to further negotiation in the 30 days before the tariffs become effective . ’ |
| 22 | US trade representative Carla Hills said : ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and are open to further negotiation in the 30 days before the tariffs become effective . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We have demonstrated extraordinary patience and we are open to further negotiations in the 30 days before the duties become effective . ’ |
| 24 | Initial action , which will begin in 30 days unless the dispute is resolved , will be taken on rape oil , wheat gluten and white wine . |
| 25 | Interest will be charged on all bills remaining unpaid 30 days after you received them . |
| 26 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 27 | For example , a 6-month CD could have a 30-day rollover ; this means that the interest rate on the CD is related to 6-month LIBID and is fixed for 30 days , and will change every 30 days if LIBID has changed . |
| 28 | Most people say 30 days because the man travels at 10 miles a day . |
| 29 | The blaze commenced one lunchtime when few people were in the premises , so there was no loss of life , but it took a long time for the blaze to be brought under control and some days before the firemen were able to be sure that there was no risk of further outbreaks of fire . |
| 30 | This suggests that low prostacyclin production may be a consequence of arterial endothelial cell loss or damage and this requires restoration by normalisation of metabolism for some days before prostacyclin production returns to normal ( Harrison et al , 1980 ) . |