Example sentences of "[vb past] [adj] days " in BNC.

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1 The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft .
2 The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later .
3 Cells from passages 45–65 were grown on uncoated plastic coverslips and used 4–15 days after subculture .
4 The leaflet promised six days of intensive , action-packed skiing in Chamonix with Nigel Shepherd ( UIAGM ) , International Mountain Guide and Andrew Lockerbie ( BASI ) , a British Grade 1 Ski Teacher .
5 Clough died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 27 August 1916 of injuries sustained three days earlier in a railway accident while examining rocks in a narrow cutting .
6 Still further varieties and contrasts of tone are available by such mechanical means as the mute ( sordino ) , plucking , ( pizzicato ) , instead of bowing , the strings , ponticello tremolo in which a most eerie effect is produced by bowing the strings nearer to the bridge than the normal position , col legno in which the strings are struck with the back of the bow , giving a sound like the rattle of dry sticks , glissando , much used these days , etc .
7 For example , woodwork , sewing and cookery were available at one centre only , which Contact visited three days a week .
8 We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden .
9 She did n't freak much to the Moscow Beat these days , but she knew Sove Stuff really got to the DAR .
10 At the Physic Garden Miller was equally brusque and Linnaeus found three days of tactful approach necessary to obtain the North American plants wanted for Clifford 's garden .
11 It 's showtime at the Manor Ground these days .
12 Do you know what hotels cost these days ?
13 The show that underlined changing days was the Oxford review , Beyond The Fringe , with its mild demolition job on national pretensions which had been the Conservatives ' stock-in-trade since 1951 .
14 Kabul saw its quietest day since battles between the army and the Hezb-i-Islami erupted 27 days ago .
15 Although the Bonhomme Richard sank two days later , the Battle of Flamborough Head was an American victory , for the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough were sailed back to France as prizes , and 504 prisoners were taken , including , a bitter blow for the Royal Navy , 26 officers .
16 I promptly forgot about the audition , considering it a waste of time , so was astounded when John phoned four days later to say I had passed the audition and would be hearing from Les Cox when he 'd decided which show I 'd be on .
17 Well that 's right cos they were thinking of erm , mind you they 've stop , they 've already parted and they stopped two days in and then
18 They trained seven days a week when it got really serious , ’ she said .
19 I trained most days from then on .
20 The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October .
21 The second , received eight days later , was typed and brief .
22 Guatemala had signed the accession protocol in April [ see p. 38259 ] ; formal membership came 30 days after the notification that ratification procedures had been completed .
23 A lever was sent for , and Harry himself was required to open up one of the barrels filled some days before .
24 Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee .
25 The shooting of Sgt Newman came three days after two IRA bombs in London killed three people and injured 91 .
26 An abrupt end to the affair came three days later when refugees were awakened before dawn and taken to airports to be flown back to Albania .
27 Observers in Hanoi said that her release , which came three days before a visit to Vietnam by French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas , was a goodwill gesture towards France .
28 The attack came three days later .
29 The art of Gallienus ' reign recalled happier days under the emperors of the second century AD .
30 The shooting itself caused three days of riots ; and although a racially mixed jury found Mr Lozano guilty of manslaughter shortly afterwards , an appeals court threw out the verdict because it thought the jury had been intimidated by the unrest .
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