Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since that afternoon two days ago they 'd treated each other with a cool formality , a style initiated by Roman on the return trip from the Blue Grotto , when he 'd seemed to withdraw into a kind of amused reserve , as if he 'd tested her out in some way and now lost interest in the original conquest . |
| 2 | The three-year road contract will involve between 65 and 70 lorry movements for ten hours each day in each direction six days a week . |
| 3 | ‘ I think it 's done by quite a few groups these days , ’ said Mike Morrissey of the CMAC . |
| 4 | ‘ We came to this bar some days , ’ says Carl , laughing . |
| 5 | What we do is provide them all er all of them with er a training course an awareness which does include on some with some companies two days out in the field . |
| 6 | Some PCs these days can already offer this type of performance or may offer a one megabyte graphics card as an optional extra for as little as £20 over the price of a 512K card . |
| 7 | But how I am to get conveyed with my luggage to Maitland neither Stephen or I can devise , three teams of bullocks having left Warra on their way from the plains to this place eight days ago and have not yet arrived . |
| 8 | The outcome of the conversation was another meeting three days later . |
| 9 | This would restrict you to rather few banks these days . |
| 10 | Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG limped in with its first half figures two days after its parent reported , complaining that falling computer prices would lead to a a fall in turnover of around $635m — that 's one billion marks — in the business year to September 30 : the company belatedly responded to Reuter 's inquiries after the announcement of the parent 's figures by saying that Nixdorf first half sales fell 9% to $3,555m and that orders fell 5% to $3,620m ; it would not forecast the group 's earnings but pointed to earlier company predictions of a slight improvement this year last year 's $326m loss . |
| 11 | If you have electrical appliances I know it 's gon na cost you a few pence , or probably even a few pounds these days , do make sure that your electrical appliances are serviced properly and correctly . |
| 12 | In some ways those days when she had lived in Paula 's shadow seemed a very long time ago , in others they might have been just yesterday . |
| 13 | ‘ He was trying very hard , not like some people these days who simply never bother . |
| 14 | ‘ Buckmaster seems to be running this outfit these days , ’ Newman snapped . |
| 15 | Do you drink some alcohol most days ? |
| 16 | Very few colleges these days refuse admission on grounds of age alone . |
| 17 | I don I should also say that following a very recent decision er in our submission that 's probably right , that my Lord as I say , I say to you with no joy , this really is desperate and er one can not have , in our submission , in the minds of the jury by inadmissible evidence , the suggestion that yes we have been harbouring this man two days before . |
| 18 | After all , they 've won Olympic gold and they do n't get a penny for all this training six days a week . |
| 19 | He was not the most welcoming of hosts , alarmed at the thought of what one thousand men and horses could do to his winter 's supplies and forage ; but at least he could tell them that a large mounted party had indeed passed this way two days previously and had turned off out of this main Yarrow valley southwards , to climb by Altrieve to the high pass of Tushielaw , which would take them to the Ettrick valley . |
| 20 | PATRIOTISM is a dirty word in this country these days . |
| 21 | I just have to read a few tabloids these days to get me going . |
| 22 | ‘ Hilary 's the great man in this school these days , ’ said Hoddnett . |
| 23 | And all of them are making so much money these days out of replacing the world 's ageing fleet of oil tankers that they can accept losses on their aircraft business in order to keep their foot in the door for the day , however distant , when they can compete with their own aeroplane . |
| 24 | Unfortunately it does not seem to carry much weight these days , people only want to trust when it suits them |
| 25 | I mean , not that it makes much difference these days anyway , but yes , you 're right ; it is a bit soon . |
| 26 | PRODUCED BY Peter Buck , which ai n't such a recommendation in itself , since an REM by-line has as much rarity these days as a Steve Albini credit or the legend ‘ from Seattle ’ , but Uncle Tupelo are pretty magnificent , as it happens . |
| 27 | With so much emphasis these days on using role-play with adolescents for Life Skills we need to train our teachers to be sensitive to the meaning and usage of structure . |
| 28 | ANOREXIA NERVOSA is an eating disorder which has become an increasing problem over recent years especially as there is so much pressure these days to be ‘ thin ’ . |
| 29 | A NAME who inspires much mirth these days , Donegan was one of the unlikely heroes of such early British practitioners as The Rolling Stones and Van Morrison . |
| 30 | Despite much discussion these days of the ‘ entrepreneurial personality , ’ few of the entrepreneurs with whom I have worked during the last 30 years had such personalities . |