Example sentences of "in the [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing on that scale in the Labour days . |
| 2 | Cricket now , and in the final day of the County championship matches , |
| 3 | Cricket … and in the final day of the County Championship match at Cheltenham |
| 4 | He has even looked benignly bored in the final days of preparation ; he has no need , other than to satisfy the boxing historians , to climb into the ring again . |
| 5 | Senior Tories are attempting to highlight the dangers posed by a hung Parliament to boost their support in the final days of the election campaign . |
| 6 | In the final days before they met , Mother 's face began to harden when she sat and watched Boy and O , as if she was trying to push them together by sheer force of will power . |
| 7 | This week , about 20 scientists , attending the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference at NASA 's Johnson Space Center in Houston , compared results of preliminary studies on a meteorite found by a US party in the final days of its 1981–82 expedition to Antarctica . |
| 8 | But in the final days of the race to the White House , Hillary 's voice seemed to disappear . |
| 9 | He is being buffeted from all corners — a victim of circumstance trapped at the centre of a party more divided even than in the final days of Lady Thatcher . |
| 10 | In the final days of the campaign , with the opposition trailing the government in the polls , Peacock started a controversy by suggesting that , if elected , he would cancel the planned establishment of an Australian-Japanese high technology city in Australia . |
| 11 | Mattox 's campaign presented her silence on this subject as an expression of guilt , although the drugs issue backfired on him in the final days of the campaign when witnesses claimed to have seen him smoking marijuana in the early 1970s , a claim which he vehemently denied . |
| 12 | In the final days before the ground assault there were reports of increasing allied artillery fire and skirmishing inside Iraqi-held territory as the allies sought to destroy those enemy fortifications — including sand ramparts known as berms , oil-filled ditches and mine fields — which had survived the bombing campaign . |
| 13 | In the final days of the occupation the Iraqis were alleged to have perpetrated a reign of terror within the city , including random killings , rape , the destruction of many public buildings and the seizure of up to 5,000 Kuwaiti citizens who were believed to have been taken to Iraq as hostages . |
| 14 | The Northern Territories ( known in the Soviet Union as the Kuriles ) consisted of the four islands of Shikotan , Etorofu , Kunashiri and the Habomai group , seized by Soviet forces in the final days of the Pacific War in 1945 . |
| 15 | In the final days of the crisis , financial institutions had begun to refuse to honour the warrants , thereby threatening to precipitate a widespread closure of state offices . |
| 16 | The combined effect of Perot cutting into Clinton 's support and of evidence that Bush 's standing in the polls was showing some signs of improvement rejuvenated the President 's campaign in the final days of the contest and forced the Democrats to concede that the election could be much closer than had earlier been thought likely . |
| 17 | ( It is worthy of note at this stage that Harris never received his full complement of aircraft and in the final days of the Bomber Offensive his maximum strength of first line aircraft was only 1,625 of which 200 were Mosquitos , ) in one of my Staff College lectures . |
| 18 | I have already mentioned the influence of Barth in the modern day . |
| 19 | Locke 's enthusiasm is alive and well in the modern day too , despite the buffeting religious belief has had in the West over the last two hundred years . |
| 20 | Although I have so far been concentrating on Thomist interpretations of existence , there have been equally profound examinations in Buddhist and Moslem tradition , and in the modern day by existentialist writers , some of whom are religious and some of whom are not . |
| 21 | In the pre-machinery days I used to start in August to hand knit gloves for my two school-boy sons . |
| 22 | They are clearly attracted by the knowledge that they are able to buy a public house for at least 50 per cent to 60 per cent less than in the hectic days of 1989/90 . |
| 23 | Indeed , Pausanias shows us what an account of a war with the Celts looked like in the pre-scientific days of Celtic studies , in the third century B.C. Direct contacts with the Celts seem to have been confined to prisoners or to mercenaries , bad subjects for ethnographic research |
| 24 | From 20% in 1980 , investment banking grew to account for two-thirds of the business at the bigger houses in the go-go days . |
| 25 | Mr John Towers , managing director , said that in the five days after the poll sales had risen by 20 per cent compared with the same five days last year . |
| 26 | Heathrow Airport expected to handle a total of 600,000 passengers in the five days leading up to Christmas Day — a six per cent increase on last year . |
| 27 | In the five days of violence which resulted official estimates suggested that at least 30 people died ( including one MP ) and several hundred were injured . |
| 28 | Four murders in the five days to Aug. 22 brought the death toll in Corsica 's crime wave to 28 since the beginning of the year . |
| 29 | Ribald measures of organisational capacity in relation to breweries spring to mind ; let it be noted that Dorchester ran its municipal brewhouse efficiently and profitably in the great days of Puritanism , but not thereafter . |
| 30 | His favourite guns , the ‘ specials ’ that were made for his father , my grand-uncle , in 1906 , in the great days of shooting-parties . |