Example sentences of "early days [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early days machines were dreamed up , usually by an individual , with little scientific underpinning . |
| 2 | As a recent review points out , in the early days researchers were hampered because they could not obtain sufficient quantities of pure interferon , and in any case there is no such thing as ‘ interferon ’ — there are at least three families of interferon ( British Medical Journal , 5 March , p 739 ) . |
| 3 | In these early days Temperance was greeted with cynicism . |
| 4 | In the early days Yoash was a natural rebel , refusing to make his bed with a proper hospital corner , throwing the blue collection box for the Jewish National Fund at a fellow student , and taking up almost permanent occupancy of the bed-wetters room . |
| 5 | From the early days Kylie was plagued by obscene phone calls and hate mail . |
| 6 | Although in the early days Derek was happy to drive me around and did n't even charge me for the petrol , pretty soon our visits here and there grew so frequent and far afield that he was finding himself quite a bit out of pocket . |
| 7 | In the early days production was carried out entirely with bottle kilns . |
| 8 | In earlier days Joy was a champion swimmer , helping to win the coveted Swimming Cup of the Cape and representing Western Province at the Curry Cup Games in Durban . |