31.   In her early days as a singer she had encountered those who had wrongly assumed she was nothing more than a beautiful but empty-headed blonde.

32.   He thought his days as a musician were over.

33.   It was a case of getting up late and trying to maek the day as short as possible.

34.   Every day as I bought these papers more photographs involving the big two appeared and not one of any local side.

35.   He also enjoys rugby and football, these days as a spectator rather than a player.

36.   He was working at ICI Billingham at the time and it had become habit, from his days as a London businessman, to wear a flower.

37.   The Movement and Dance Division, known in the early days as the Recreative Gymnastics and Dancing Committee, was one of the first to be formed.

38.   Along the way, Tarloff dispenses the sort of observations that might as easily be found in an op-ed piece these days as in a novel.

39.   Although she was eventually taken in by a group of missionaries, the ghosts from her days as a comfort woman continued to haunt her imagination.

40.   Although Richardson still gets plenty of international travel, his days as a roving unofficial negotiator are over.