Example sentences of "a [noun] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a compact place , spreading out extramurally a bit these days into the basin to the north of the river , yet basically contained on the other three sides by its fifteenth century walls . |
| 2 | But I think they , they probably play it down a bit these days . |
| 3 | He was arrested yesterday in his home town of Portsmouth … he faces one charge of robbery … it follows a raid on a jewllers five days ago … when the jeweller … |
| 4 | Now , there 's a lot of controversy sometimes about getting into universities , and I want to ask you , is it very difficult to get into a university these days ? |
| 5 | I think it is best to suck it off with one of those tiny battery-powered vacuum cleaners you can get for about a tenner these days , as I did in this case . |
| 6 | Yeah for the sake of what , it cost me a fiver , probably a tenner these days , speculate to accumulate |
| 7 | The exchange rate 's going our way too , it makes a change these days . |
| 8 | And why there should be such a change these days in that line I , I , I ca n't quite agree with it . |
| 9 | Well , this is very much a sandwich three days , because we 've got today and Sunday looking quite good , but a rather difficult and tense Saturday sort of tucked in between . |
| 10 | Walking into a club these days , it 's easy to get the feeling that you 've accidentally come across the local Hell 's Angels chapter double booked with a Skin 2 party . |
| 11 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 12 | Even the streets are like a dorm these days , with much peer-group pressure and unpredictably intense scrutiny , adolescent , unpleasant , sexual but sexually obscure or half-formed , and made up of ridiculous postures which no one is allowed to laugh at . |
| 13 | It 's almost as grand as a chef these days is n't it . |
| 14 | Alec Lewis , 84 , died from a stroke two days after his car was in collision with a bus on Muirhead Avenue , Norris Green , Liverpool . |
| 15 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 16 | We tend to assume that everybody has a car these days and will be affected by these increases . |
| 17 | Here there had been a marriage three days before , and the bride had just been brought to her new house that morning . |
| 18 | ‘ Susie seems to leave everything in a mess these days , even though she knows I care a lot about the way the flat looks . |
| 19 | ‘ My dear fellow , to meet in a bar two days running hardly constitutes a relationship of note . |
| 20 | It is a wee bit disconcerting when you can hear yourself think in a pub these days . |
| 21 | Of course , the genial Ulsterman is an entertainer as well as a sportsman these days and the audience was there for his jokes as much as his trick shots . |
| 22 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 23 | Having finished loading , Ram stopped to scratch the back of his head , which was rather itchy , and then his elbow , which had been bitten by a mosquito some days earlier but which still itched occasionally . |
| 24 | Jackson was asked for a test two days afterwards , but European officials said that was too late . |
| 25 | A test three days after the train hit the buffers at London 's Cannon Street station showed traces of cannabis in driver Maurice Graham , 25 . |
| 26 | MOTHER Teresa , who broke three ribs in a fall ten days ago , has been released from hospital in Rome . |
| 27 | There 's always a danger these days that an artist can come into fashion and then go out again . |
| 28 | There 's always a danger these days that an artist can come into fashion and then go out again . |
| 29 | In July TES began the task of installing and commissioning the equipment normally a six month job , but for Randy Jones and ‘ Mac ’ McNeal it took a record 58 days to successful completion . |
| 30 | The movie shot in a record 35 days scored big at the box-office and is out later this month from CIC Video . |