Example sentences of "the [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The half day per month allocated to every worker for reading is second only to interviewing . |
| 2 | Apart from our full time Dinghy Sailing and Windsurfing holidays , we have a few windsurfers and single handed dinghies which may be hired locally by the day , the half day or the hour subject to availability . |
| 3 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 4 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 5 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 6 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 7 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 8 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 9 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 10 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 11 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 12 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 13 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 14 | The few days she had spent in Thomas Sachs ' company had already begun to have an effect on her . |
| 15 | Furbush ( 1989 ) used data for five-minute intervals on the S&P500 index for 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 — the period of the stock market crash and the few days just before . |
| 16 | The trip to Italy went well as did the few days when one of the twins , ( full name Alexander ) was with us . |
| 17 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 18 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 19 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 20 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 22 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 23 | Their days of cruelty are numbered and the fewer days before fox hunting is banned the better . |
| 24 | The wood floated for many weeks , through the many days at sea many things happened like the strange shape it had formed from being slashed off by the sea . |
| 25 | The many days spent not only taking oral and written evidence but taking part in the interesting innovation of seminars in which all the participants in the criminal justice system could come together and discuss the issues convinced him that there was no call and no advocate for the creation of a specific offence . |
| 26 | But I mean , a lot of people do n't glorify on the jobs they do , I mean Dinda she said you know , it 's awful being the one who 's getting all the all day long , kind of explained and help them with their problems , sympathise with , with something that does n't work she 'd much rather be outdoors than being a or looking after , but she said you know , it 's , it 's a secure job and these days I think well I 'm not I run my own car and they do n't really think that |
| 27 | The Church of the Latter Day Saints abhors divorce and abortion as much as it does alcohol and caffeine . |
| 28 | CHURCH OF THE LATTER DAY FAX BUREAU |
| 29 | A mini-version of the latter day water staircase beloved of French and Italian gardeners . |
| 30 | The reports are available in formats which have been approved by the Latter day Saints . |