Example sentences of "a [num ord] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR Ladislav Adamec , the Czechoslovak Prime Minister , threatened to quit last night , as hard bargaining continued for a second day with the opposition over the shape of the new government . |
| 2 | Rain and bad light brought several interruptions , made batting difficult , and took the game into a second day . |
| 3 | Have the fruit or yogurt for dessert on a second day each week . |
| 4 | For a second day yesterday , snipers fired on peace protesters in the city , killing two or more and taking the number of casualties there since Sunday to at least 11 dead and more than 100 wounded . |
| 5 | ELABORATE last-ditch attempts to save a town from lava flowing from Sicily 's Mount Etna were postponed for a second day yesterday because of poor weather . |
| 6 | For day travelling the sleeping compartment was converted into a second day compartment . |
| 7 | In the centre of the hut stood a tall coke stove , blackened from use , deep in dust , and its chimney stack climbed to the ceiling and through its open hatch there was the glow of fuel working out a second day 's burning . |
| 8 | Fighting continued into a second day , with the presidential palace again coming under fire from the air and from snipers , despite presidential assurances to the country that the situation was under control . |
| 9 | The motorcyclist beat this time by five minutes , but conditions were unusual ; many institutions such as the University and the Art College remained closed for a second day of holiday , which meant traffic was unusually light . |
| 10 | THE European Commission yesterday promised to set minimum prices for some fish in an attempt to placate French trawlermen who went on the rampage at Paris 's wholesale food market in a second day of anger at low prices and British imports . |
| 11 | AMERICAN troops shot dead at least nine people during a second day of riots in Mogadishu on Wednesday , according to witnesses . |
| 12 | As the agreement was announced Mount Pinatubo erupted for a 39th day , spurting clouds of steam and ash 14,000 metres into the air , and showering Manila — about 90 km south of the volcano — with quantities of ash and grit sufficient to cause the temporary closure of the city 's domestic and international airports . |
| 13 | Info centre to stay shut on Saturdays A TOURIST information centre will remain closed on Saturdays after Middlesbrough councillors decided they could not afford to open the Corporation Road office for a sixth day , despite a campaign to increase tourism . |
| 14 | Fresh fruit after lunch on a fourth day each week . |
| 15 | A fourth day would be used for outreach work , to include training other organisations , home visits and issue-based talks to other groups ; and a fifth day would concentrate on pro-active rather than reactive social policy work ( see Chapter 8 for an expansion of these concepts ) . |
| 16 | If the absence continues to a fourth day , at that time , you or some other person acting on your behalf , must notify the Divisional/Section Head of the continuing absence and whether the period of absence is likely to continue beyond the seventh day . |
| 17 | TALKS between British Airways and Virgin Atlantic aimed at settling the so-called dirty tricks affair last night looked likely to continue into a fourth day . |
| 18 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |
| 19 | His father was a Seventh Day Adventist and used to go round the streets carrying a placard with ‘ Prepare to meet thy God ’ on one side and ‘ Sin is Death ’ on the other . ’ |
| 20 | A fourth day would be used for outreach work , to include training other organisations , home visits and issue-based talks to other groups ; and a fifth day would concentrate on pro-active rather than reactive social policy work ( see Chapter 8 for an expansion of these concepts ) . |
| 21 | Son batted at least as well as Miandad and Mujtaba , and lasted longer than Malcolm or Ramiz , but it has to be admitted that with a fifth day available , his team would have lost as surely as England did . |
| 22 | In June 1987 a first day conference on church planting was held at Holy Trinity Brompton ; more were held in 1988 and 1989 with a further conference held at St Andrew 's , Chorleywood in 1989 . |
| 23 | A first day cover is also available with an alternative postmark : Birmingham , where the D'Oyly Carte company has its home . |
| 24 | For the 24 students on a new Performing Arts Course at the Gloucestershire College of Arts and Technology , it was a first day they would never forget . |
| 25 | The championships were reduced to an all-English affair when Adrian Davies , the Welsh No 1 , joined Nicol as a first day exit . |
| 26 | There 's a twenty-first day every month . |
| 27 | King & McGaw 's order and delivery department enable us to feature posters for almost any book promotion we have undertaken at very short notice , and its warehouse staff can pick , pack and despatch any quantity of posters from a large range with a speed that would make most book publishers ' head spin ( with a twice-weekly delivery and a next day customer order service , I think most booksellers would agree with me ) . |
| 28 | Because , although it 's before nine erm , the next morning erm you 're actually giving them now more lead time , you 've given them another day because an , sometime tomorrow you know , if it gets there at two o'clock and it 's off-loading in in in at the bay and someone checks that it 's been received and then someone makes a phone call to tell them it 's there , and then they 're doing something else , and then they come down and have a look at it , how many boxes do you think are sitting on loading bays that do n't get looked at for a day or two , or three , or four , five when they 've had a next day service ? |
| 29 | Not since a bony young Yorkshireman , Len Hutton , batted into a third day in August 1938 against Bradman 's Australia to pass the Don 's record score for a test match had the British known such transcendent moments of self-belief through sport . |
| 30 | Frequent criticism of the dearth of technical demonstrations at the Royal Welsh prompted MLC 's regional beef specialist , Brinley Davies , to stage a third day livestock ring presentation of practical genetics . |