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Example sentences of "those days [unc] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	And in those days erm I , the Co-op had got a building society as well you see , so it all tied up and I think mother , you know , I , I think it was a very good shop , I mean it was er so .
2	Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen .
3	There were , there was , there was n't any runway it was just a grass airfield as there was a lot of them in those days erm this , this is why they , they could n't get any aircraft of any size in there you see , this is why some of them used to overshoot if they got twin engines before the war erm
4	Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there .
5	Well in those days er there was n't much me much er coal cutting machine , this was all hewn by hand .
6	Because e even in those days er it , it was n't , there 'd be good training hospitals and not so good .
7	But the both until B T split from the Post Office , the Post Office put in if I remember rightly in negotiations those days er they were putting in something like fourteen per cent of the pay bill .
8	One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written
9	In fact I think in in those days er it 's mostly the local men that
10	What about er , in those days er , possibly a few still , when erm let's , you said gypsies did n't you ?
11	R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + +
12	You could n't get in those days d during the war you see .
13	a compassionate employer — compassionate by those days ' standards , not by today 's standards .
14	Well they always started the lads right at the pit bottom and in those days ev everybody was crackers down there in those days , they were all mad , tearing about .
15	But in those days th they did n't .
16	In those days th there was a great do about babies sleeping in a room on their own .
17	You see in those days i people i servants were so you could get servants so easily ev even if you did n't have somebody living in er you , you 'd have a daily person .