Example sentences of "and days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because the accident went unmonitored during the first few vital hours and days , certain statistics will never be available . |
| 2 | Perkin had always been presumed to be busy in his workshop , and yet there were hours and days when he might not have been , when Mackie was out of the house seeing to the horses . |
| 3 | The voices of Surkov and Rozanov on tape , played over and over in my study in the first year or so after our meeting , had brought their living presence to me ; but later , as those tapes were discarded in favour of over-scrawled typewritten pages , Surkov and Rozanov increasingly became characters under my control , their improvisations almost lost under the refinements of a thousand and one nights ( and days ) of my own labour . |
| 4 | The final goal of all the Waldens , Dimblebys , and Days is to hit the headlines on the news broadcasts ( or in the next day 's papers ) by tripping up their interviewee or extorting an apology from him , or convicting him of a contradiction . |
| 5 | Nights of fog and days of rain , cobbles and kerbs , and bagwash in a pram , land of the hard man and the wee hauf , the upper cottage flat and the fossil groves of tenements , where ships sailed by the end of the street , and the closes echoed with the cries of skelped weans and the rumble of passing trams . |
| 6 | Pavey Smith mentions that in 1880 Nailsworth still had two cloth mills at work : Dunkirk and Days Mills . |
| 7 | Time was running out , however , and by the late 1880s , both Dunkirk and Days had finally closed . |
| 8 | Money was still short and days were long , and parties were often and red wine was cheap . |
| 9 | It is too redolent of rooms upstairs and days gone by . |
| 10 | Dinner is also the time when schedules are arranged and days planned out . |
| 11 | Hesiod , unlike Homer , in his Works and Days gave an account of man 's decline from a primeval Golden Age ; his poem was based implicitly on the concept of time , although the word ‘ time ’ never actually appears in it . |
| 12 | The earliest extant account of this is to be found in the Works and Days of Hesiod ( c.700 BC ) , who sought to account thereby for man 's present condition and , in particular , for his need to work . |
| 13 | Months and days were , of course , more likely to be correctly stated , and letters were frequently dated in this respect but much more use was made of festivals and saints ' days . |
| 14 | ‘ We all need someone who will carry us through our nights and days , our winters and summers , and our times of darkness and clarity . |
| 15 | Its functioning , including leap years , is so familiar that it sometimes comes as a revelation to researchers into early English local history to learn that there were several calendars in use in the past , each somewhat different from the other , with quite distinct ways of referring to months and days , and with days whose hours varied in length according to the season of the year . |
| 16 | Preparations for departure filled our thoughts and days : arrangements for Shanti to look after our correspondence for us and deal with our finances ; saying goodbye to friends ; making a list of unanswered letters to write while I was away ; contingency plans for situations likely and unlikely . |
| 17 | After several postponements and days of waiting , the Battalion left for Belgium , the 48th Division congratulated by General Viscount Gort , C in C of the BEF , on their good traffic discipline . |
| 18 | Leisure centres in Greater Manchester have a schedule of concessions , which are available to senior citizens at certain times and days of the week . |
| 19 | The militia lost heart at this news ; they had already been on duty for a month , and had been treated with extraordinary meanness by the citizens they were defending , who , they complained , ‘ would not even allow straw for the poor men to lay upon ’ while ‘ some were eight , some seven , and all six nights and days under arms upon the walls ’ . |
| 20 | We wasted days and days dancing in the Pink Pussy Club , yawning at Fat Mattress at the Croydon Greyhound , ogling strippers on Sunday mornings in a pub , sleeping through Godard and Antonioni films , and enjoying the fighting at Millwall Football Ground , where I forced Changez to wear a bobble-hat over his face in case the lads saw he was a Paki and imagined I was one too . |
| 21 | And for days and days , under the full moon of high expectation , Charlie laboured to wrench a fragment of beauty from his soul — in my view ( and to my relief ) , to no avail . |
| 22 | ‘ I remember we struggled on one solo on ‘ Cuts Like A Knife ’ and we actually spent days and days trying to think up what the solo was going to be . |
| 23 | In the weeks and days which followed Ruth clung to those words of Ernest 's . |
| 24 | That excludes the hidden cost of unofficial late starts and days lost through ‘ flu ’ or ‘ food poisoning ’ after a heavy bevvy the night before . |
| 25 | We always seem to have exhibitions to work for , work for galleries , and so on and days are planned around these . |
| 26 | good times of the day and days of the week to make deliveries to individual customers |
| 27 | ‘ I expected my times at Marseille to be measured in years and months , not weeks and days . |
| 28 | Mr Brown demanded an emergency national recovery programme to create jobs within weeks and days and save the building , hi-tech and manufacturing industries . |
| 29 | They have good days and bad days : days when things seem relatively easy , they are on the ball , and a lot gets done , and days when they just ca n't face it and phone in sick — only to feel much perkier half-an-hour after putting down the phone , and a little guilty that ‘ I could have gone in if I 'd really had to ’ . |
| 30 | Interestingly it is precisely this issue which put the story on the front page after days and days of inside-page coverage . |