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The average employee now-adays receives something like 100 email messages a day and coping with that deluge has become one of the challenges of a working life.
Mark Zuckerberg says the email's end is nigh. LOL | John Naughton 2011
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Aren't nearly all big Special Effects films B-Films now-adays?
Filmstalker: Wimmer and Jovovich unhappy with Ultraviolet 2006
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Drinking wine with people is an old custom, but it will now-adays be found to exist only among the past or passing generation.
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"Uster be a plenty of 'em," said he to "Captain Li," "but dey's scurcer'n gole dollars now-adays, an 'I'se proud to see 'em comin' ag'in."
Wakulla: a story of adventure in Florida Kirk Munroe 1890
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` ` Lightfoot was his name, sir; a divine he was, and another kind of a divine than they hae now-adays.
Rob Roy 1887
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That's the way poor, good old fellows are forced to die alone, now-adays.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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These matters take precedence of all others now-adays, or else my first word would have been to say how glad we were to hear that C. is well again.
Autobiography and Letters of Orville Dewey, D.D. Edited by his Daughter Orville Dewey 1838
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It is a commonthing now-adays for Cookmaids to ask great Wages, although they are conscious to themselves of their inability of performing almost any thing; which as it is unconscionable so to do, so in the end it will prove disgraceful to them: I shall therefore tell you what in reason may be required from you, and what justly you ought to perform.
The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex 1675
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This day our cook maid (we having no luck in maids now-adays), which was likely to prove a good servant, though none of the best cooks, fell sick and is gone to her friends, having been with us but 4 days.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 24: September/October 1663 Samuel Pepys 1668
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But, Lord! to see to what a poor content any acquaintance among these people, or the people of the world, as they now-adays go, is worth; for my part I and my wife will keep to one another and let the world go hang, for there is nothing but falseness in it.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1667 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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