Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] days " in BNC.

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1 Clearly " form " even in its most denuded days had a necessary content for design .
2 THURSDAY 22 November 1990 was one of the most momentous days in modern British politics .
3 March 7th was one of the most momentous days in British sport during the last 50 years and , when our English team achieved the first back-to-back Grand Slam in almost 70 years , we are snatched away to watch highlights of Scotland v France .
4 Marshal Sergei Akhromeev , now Mr Gorbachev 's military adviser and , at the time , the man who organised the evacuation of Pripyat and entombed the stricken reactor , says that the two most memorable days in his life were the German invasion of his country in 1941 and the day of the Chernobyl explosion .
5 To take the example of chalk , some of the most memorable days of my childhood were spent cycling in the North Downs in Surrey .
6 Then Mr Major burst into a broad grin of relief as the voting was announced after one of the most historic days in Parliament : 319 for the Government , 316 against .
7 He became an expert on Ash in Ash 's most unfashionable days .
8 She had looked deep into his black eyes ; for six weeks she had enjoyed , in the brief times they had spent together , the happiest and most carefree days of her life , surreptitiously stolen , with the help of a willing friend , from her guarded life , the life of a rich heiress .
9 Liveries have of course proliferated ; not since pre-1923 days have so many different colour schemes been seen , the only snag being that often two or more liveries are included in the same train where for example the PTE 's dedicated stock gets diverted .
10 This factor is an important one if images of an area taken on different days are to be compared .
11 The school shut down eleven days ago but now its ninety one pupils are back in the classroom … after some round-the-clock work from builders and staff .
12 An imperial ambassador who in 1622 spent only eleven days in London and achieved nothing of significance nevertheless received a present worth £1,600 on his departure .
13 With only eight days to go until the opening of Seville 's World Fair , workmen are putting the finishing touches to the site .
14 It admitted that the protest had been " disappointing " but noted that the movement was still only eight days old and people were " very shy " of the police .
15 THE ROW over the closure of Strathclyde outdoor centres worsened yesterday when an education official admitted that teachers at one centre had been given only eight days ' warning that they faced losing their posts .
16 The news was greeted with astonishment by Christopher Mason , leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group : ‘ It 's extraordinary that a ‘ caring , sharing ’ council told its employees only eight days ago that they would be offered redundancy or redeployment . ’
17 His release came only eight days after another American hostage , Robert Polehill was set free .
18 It 's only odd days , it 's it 's perhaps lovely there in the winter when it 's snowing and things
19 The big regatta dances in the huge grey tent down by the quay in Carrick were just beginning but there were so few days left of the holiday that Maggie preferred to spend them about the house chatting with Rose or her sisters around the fire or talking with Michael out in the front garden among his flowerbeds ; and sometimes during long breaks in the rain they would go out to where Moran was tidying up in the meadows .
20 And then the questions which had arisen so few days ago arose unbidden , and this time , instead of forcing them away , he forced himself to face them — and the principal question of course was , just who was his father ?
21 PAMELA : O what happiness am I sunk fro and in so few days too .
22 Dora 's life immediately becomes schizophrenically divided in achingly empty days .
23 Sgt Newman was gunned down by a man wearing a baseball cap as he walked to his car after leaving the Army careers office in Derby to which he had moved only 12 days ago to be nearer his home .
24 ONLY 12 days are left for an appeal to be made against Tom Courtney 's sentence .
25 Lord Justice Watkins said that in the case of the six officers , where two years — less 12 days — elapsed before the officers were summonsed , Mr Bartle exercised his discretion ‘ without any flaw ’ .
26 He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’
27 With the COSE Common Open System Environment agreement only just signed , sources are saying that a further agreement may be only 30 days away on WOSE — the Windows Open Systems Environment — which perhaps will be based on the technology Sun Microsystems Inc has been fostering from Praxis Corp .
28 But it is still only early days for the new arrangement , and both Diana and Charles are determined to make it work .
29 The project produced a successful demonstration run at the Le Mans 24 Hours , despite the imposition of a ridiculous timetable which gave BRM only 10 days to build the car .
30 With only 10 days to finalise the proposals before they must be announced in the Queen 's Speech , Mrs Thatcher 's policy unit , chaired by her senior adviser , Professor Brian Griffiths , is also understood to be considering plans to make sharply increased tuition fees , rather than the block grant , the main means of distributing public money to higher education .
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