Example sentences of "[adj] day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nanny Fanny was also a Jewess , which caused a lot of bad feeling because Smallfry called herself a Catholic and so they believed in different pars of the Bible and were supposed to go to church on different days of the week . |
| 2 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 3 | Collect your pension on different days of the week . |
| 4 | Certain papers specialize in particular career areas on different days of the week . |
| 5 | To ensure that different days of the week are covered , the measurements will be done on every twentieth working day . |
| 6 | During these moist-palmed days of self-discovery , it is taken for granted that the penis can withstand a rigorous pummelling up to eight times a day . |
| 7 | In the halcyon days of the 1960s , it was lower than is dreamed of now : inflation and unemployment shuffled along together comfortably within ranges of , respectively , 0.8%-6.3% and 1.5%-2.6% . |
| 8 | Dalrymple presided over the halcyon days of ‘ c'moan or get aff ’ until his retiral in 1926 , and Dalrymple 's days saw the expansion of the system to 100 miles of track and an annual profit , together with a yearly 300 MILLION passengers , not all on the one tram of course . |
| 9 | None of these measures will , of course , bring back the halcyon days of German science , or the immense amount of scientific talent lost to Germany — and usually to Europe — in the days of the Third Reich . |
| 10 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 11 | Bill : There 's something I 'd like to mention before we go too far away from the halcyon days of the gay movement . |
| 12 | Hot , halcyon days of sunshine and vapour trails , butterflies and crammed picnic baskets . |
| 13 | The contrast with the halcyon days of Italian family capitalism in the late 1980s is stark . |
| 14 | This is all a far cry from the halcyon days of the mid 80s when investors almost felt they had a vested right to 20 per cent per annum plus returns on a year by year basis . |
| 15 | But there are no easy solutions ; it is hard , for example , to imagine the EC countries deciding overnight to forget their searing battles over agricultural policy and return to the old days of costly subsidies and surpluses in order to build up buffer stocks to higher levels . |
| 16 | ‘ In the old days of walking and bicycles , you would walk down from your house to the village and stop at every house on the way for talk . |
| 17 | But Mr Laird is convinced that economic forces preclude a return to the bad old days of union disruption . |
| 18 | They would return local government finance to the bad old days of domestic rates , with unrestrained power for local councils to charge householders as much as they like . |
| 19 | I became increasingly interested in gay men 's specific ways of seeing the world — what one might call , to use a now unfashionable phrase of Raymond Williams , male homosexual structures of feeling — but to qualify for inclusion in this framework , texts had to pass an ‘ authorship test ’ ( ‘ is/was he gay ? ’ ) that harked back to the bad old days of crudely biographical criticism . |
| 20 | On 22 June , 1980 , I gave Bernie lunch at the Travellers Club , and we spent three hours recalling the Good Old Days of radio broadcasting with the CBC in Canada . |
| 21 | She said she knew nothing of a sectarian feud in the old days of Stormy Hill but if she did it was not the kind of thing you discussed with strangers , I sensed . |
| 22 | THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF MUSIC HALL |
| 23 | In the good old days of rampant dualism , the mind was rarely mentioned in polite society . |
| 24 | In the bad old days of low-carbohydrate diets , many people did , indeed , imagine that those saintly ‘ protein foods ’ were calorie-free — I have even known poor souls pouring down vastly fattening cream under the mistaken impression that it was calorie-free because it lacked carbohydrate ! |
| 25 | There are more than a few Hungarians who would happily revert to the good old days of Kadarism , when the Hungarian president , Janos Kadar ( 1956–1986 ) , offered the ‘ cheeriest barracks ’ in eastern Europe a relatively high standard of living in return for political passivity . |
| 26 | Harris , even after reforming , remained nostalgic about the good old days of drinking , much of it with his soul-mate from RADA , O'Toole , who was also his countryman ( both were born in 1932 in Eire — O'Toole in Kerry and Harris in Limerick ) . |
| 27 | Not for him the good old days of the 1960s , when the Mirror — social conscience and all — reigned supreme and Pilger was churning out his hard-hitting reports . |
| 28 | Self Inflicted Wound , that was how they had referred to sunburn back in the old days of Counter Insurgency . |
| 29 | There is an interesting link between the setting up of reserves such as Chitawan and what some may see as the bad old days of tiger hunting . |
| 30 | We like mixed-ability teaching in principle — but it 's such hard work ( if you 're not going to cop out and use worksheets all the time ) that we find ourselves longing for the good old days of streaming . |