Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 180 days being mooted is absurd and will not do any favours to clubs , players or , indeed , spectators . |
| 2 | The Chamber of Deputies passed the bill on Aug. 31 after modifying some of its provisions , so that in its final form the law cut state subsidies by only 50 per cent and these would be restored in full on expiry of the 180 days ; provisions for a moratorium on unpaid taxes and greater flexibility on contracts and salaries for senior government employees were voted out . |
| 3 | Gary was a steady , reliable , unspectacular right-back , who joined the Palace at Alan Mullery 's instigation in January 1983 and certainly helped to bolster our somewhat suspect defence in the trying days of the early mid-1980s . |
| 4 | Angie recalls how , in the high-flying days of MainMan , David turned to using drugs and how their marriage started to crumble . |
| 5 | But at home there was the secure place in the family business and , important among the priorities of a 22-year-old , the dreamy days on the Belfast Lough with the Royal Ulster Y.C. , or the lazy days on the Royal Belfast G.C. fairways . |
| 6 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 7 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 8 | Fortunately for everyone concerned , Thursday last week turned out to be one of the finest days this year … making the Bucks Horn Oak polling station one of the most idyllic in Britain . |
| 9 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 10 | For those few moments the atmosphere had changed , was as comfortable as in the Ayling days . |
| 11 | Indeed , in the eleven days since , there had not been another . |
| 12 | Although the Algarve is supposed to be the warmest place in Portugal in winter , suffice to say , that in the eleven days we were there , we had one sunny day . |
| 13 | But there was no er pointing this out and pointing that out , that 's wrong , as he did As they did in the pre-nationalization days . |
| 14 | Compared with recent serious journalistic books on science , such as the Eight Days of Creation and The Soul of a New Machine , Scientific Temperaments is a light confection . |
| 15 | He took care never to stay with her for more than twenty minutes , obeying both the spirit and the letter of Anthony 's orders , but he tried to give her a clear account of the eight days Kesselring had spent in the witness box , watching her face all the time for signs of boredom or exhaustion . |
| 16 | Finding a hot and filling breakfast that 's acceptable during the eight days of the Passover is n't easy . |
| 17 | Not that you and I ever worried about the fleshpots anyway , though we 've probably both learned to appreciate them a little more than in the tranquil days before the war … |
| 18 | In every case the estimate of β was markedly higher for the period closer to delivery , i.e. volatility declines at a faster rate in the fifty days just before delivery . |
| 19 | I tell you this is one of the greatest days for me , as I 've been a Barbra Streisand fan for years . |
| 20 | ‘ This ’ , Mrs Danby was saying , ‘ is one of the greatest days of my life ! ’ |
| 21 | For even in the darkest days of two-party Tory and Labour domination , the flame of hope burns brightly here , ’ he said . |
| 22 | Evergreen winter foliage needs to stay looking fresh right through the darkest days and some variegated plants are better at this than others . |
| 23 | It is often the case that the highest ambitions can be born in the darkest days of defeat . |
| 24 | He was ‘ Lord Haw-Haw of Hamburg , in the darkest days of the war when Britain fought on alone against the might of the Fascist dictators . ’ |
| 25 | But Bella Latimer , she decided , was the kind of woman who would go on getting what she wanted even in the darkest days of the war . |
| 26 | But even in the darkest days of the war , there was time to laugh , especially over the Government issue underwear . |
| 27 | A SONOROUS voice from some unseen depth wafts the audience back to the darkest days of the Raj where murky affairs were afoot , when life was cheap , gentlemanly double-dealing was routine and deeds could be done and curses uttered which would pursue a man back to civilisation and England . |
| 28 | Perhaps they had discovered and used their secret love-nest during the lazier days of the summer . |
| 29 | The L N E R and L M S. And er I could see then that I knew that superintendent in the private days of the railways . |
| 30 | Patrick decided to spend three of the intervening days with Timmy . |