Example sentences of "[noun] of [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There seems no objection to Premier League clubs switching games to all sorts of strange days and times , ’ said Mr Corfe . |
| 2 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 3 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 4 | Towards the end of November 1944 , or maybe the beginning of December , we had the usual succession of dark days before Christmas , made worse by thick , penetrating fog . |
| 5 | The result of two days bullying all round is that we have a few tables and two telephones and one borrowed typewriter . |
| 6 | ‘ The settlement is the result of two days intensive negotiations and we believe it is the best obtainable in the Royal Bank in the present climate . ’ |
| 7 | His best result of recent days was to win a tie-break set in the course of losing to Nicolas Pereira . |
| 8 | Full Steam to Holyhead , a one-hour VHS video for enthusiasts , was the result of many days spent watching trains . |
| 9 | All offer trips of several days duration ; check carefully what you get . |
| 10 | Recreating the golden age of the Great Western Railway : regular programme of steaming days on first and last Sundays of each month from March , Bank Holidays , all Sundays June — August , all Wednesdays in August . |
| 11 | As for Miss Kenton , I seem to remember the mounting tension of those days having a noticeable effect upon her . |
| 12 | Reviving the classical grandeur of the railway carriage of Edwardian days , with all its silver-plated , lacetableclothed dining-car finery and mahogany-panelled parlour-car ambience , on the long-established route from London to Paris and Venice , the Orient Express was the brainchild of James Sherwood , head of the Sea Containers Group . |
| 13 | Anyone fancying a repeat of Hazy Days on the Far East Buttress might be interested to know that current opinion gives it a serious E5 6b grading . |
| 14 | You must have been receiving or entitled to income support or supplementary benefit for a continuous period of 26 weeks ( but one break of 14 days or less will not matter ) . |
| 15 | There was another extended break of 51 days over Christmas . |
| 16 | Yet this much can be said : that in the research of these days , the evidence of some form of parochial structure is more likely to take one by surprise for its earliness than its lateness . |
| 17 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 18 | The stone free patients with radiolucent stones had a median duration of therapy of 124 days ( 95 days for patients with solitary stones less than 20 mm ) and 216 days for patients with calcified stones . |
| 19 | The FA , faced with fixture congestion with a gap of eight days between each match , reluctantly agreed that Cup ties would be decided by penalties after one replay . |
| 20 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 21 | Alibert fresh pasta from Olga Catering is also in special packaging , which is said to give it a guaranteed shelf-life of 60 days . |
| 22 | The brouhaha of recent days over the behaviour of Lonrho , and the Observer newspaper which it owns , should not be allowed to cloud this issue . |
| 23 | He could remember so much , he had clear pictures of whole days spent at Ecalpemos , whole conversations recorded that could be rerun in his head . |
| 24 | Fond Memory brings the light of other days around me . ’ |
| 25 | But the possibilities can greatly outweigh such things if groups are well taught , and some of these expressions of mutual direction could well offer ways forward out of the isolated , anxious states of living of these days and into the fellowship of God 's people . |
| 26 | The judge imposed a fine of £2,000 , with an alternative of 45 days imprisonment , on each charge . |
| 27 | He gave him no time to pay and ordered he be jailed for up to the alternative of 14 days . |
| 28 | The Aztec calendar had 365 days but these were divided up into 18 months of 20 days each , plus five ‘ unlucky ’ days . |
| 29 | Six months of 12-hour days , six days a week — that 's what it has taken to film the only four Wexford stories not previously adapted for TV . |
| 30 | Thirteen months of twenty days gave a cycle of 260 days that formed the core of the Maya almanac . |