Example sentences of "a day [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother used to er whe when we were younger used to come down the for a days ' scrubbing , charring . |
| 2 | Out of that I had to find , threepence a day erm bus fare . |
| 3 | But probably at the stage where somebody is spending two or three hours a day erm processing invoices , trying to get cash in , erm looking at the stock control , then that 's the point where they could very well consider a small computer now . |
| 4 | Individual : * Intensive : 7 hours a day * Private lessons : on arrangement |
| 5 | I 'll check to see what 's on offer and in the meantime , how would you like a day 's pay here ? ’ |
| 6 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 7 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |
| 8 | A day 's work still to do before the Sabbath and they would have sore heads in the morning . |
| 9 | Always have a day 's rest between training ; growth only takes place after the muscles have fully recovered from the previous training session , generally after 48 hours . |
| 10 | Work was now a day 's climbing , as well as a sea crossing away and all but forgotten . |
| 11 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 12 | This old Westminster hand misses the joy of watching a backbench procedural expert destroy a day 's business , if not a bill , with a point of order or a single wrecking amendment . |
| 13 | A junior platoon , still weeks from their own Pass-Off Parade , marches slowly past , the fatigue of a day 's fieldcraft training mixing with a look of envy on their faces as they notice the celebration of those for whom training is now a memory . |
| 14 | A chance inquiry into an old debt revealed that the building had never been fully consecrated and thus would revert to Assheton family ownership after a year and a day 's disuse . |
| 15 | He would rise early to work at his desk and return to it after a day 's engagements , often until well past midnight . |
| 16 | Several came from Shung Sep nunnery , a day 's walk from Lhasa , which had also supplied the heroic nuns of the March demonstration . |
| 17 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 18 | He feels that , for such an important event , countries should have a day 's rest between their games , as they did at the 1986 World Cup in London , where England lost in the final to Australia . |
| 19 | The main events are at 12.25 ( women ) and 1.30 ( men ) in a day 's programme comprising 12 races , the first of which is at 11.05 . |
| 20 | In this Europe there is a Benetton in every high street , Badoit and Czech Budweiser in every fridge , an Armani jacket in every wardrobe , Beaujolais Nouveau on every table , cable and satellite television channels in many languages in every living room , an Umberto Eco novel on every bookshelf , a Volvo in every garage , where CDs of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment lie casually next to Eurythmics , and where nipping across to Paris for the day is as natural as doing a day 's business in London . |
| 21 | After a day 's work , it was a bit of light relief to use it . |
| 22 | John Whitaker will take a day 's leave from this week 's Olympia show to ride Gammon in the final event of the Renault series in Grenoble . |
| 23 | ‘ You will probably have realised that , due to an administrative error in our payroll section , you have been given an extra day 's pay … instead of having a day 's pay deducted . ’ |
| 24 | Abundance often lies less than half a day 's jet flight from starvation . |
| 25 | A kilo of bananas costs the equivalent of a day 's wages . |
| 26 | This was the hub of her universe and here the family assembled after a day 's work , in the coal-mine or ( like Edward 's beautiful elder female cousin ) the local tinworks . |
| 27 | All in a day 's work : since Aesculapius , doctors have enjoyed complaining . |
| 28 | Yesterday I and a few of my colleagues spent a day 's retreat at Compton Durrville , a Franciscan retreat centre in this diocese . |
| 29 | Since the plant manager was never able to make up a day 's loss of output which pulled down his monthly overall efficiency figures on which he was judged , it was never difficult for Clasper to prove his point . |
| 30 | At one such meeting a heckler had got a great round of cheers from the assembled throng when he had told Clasper to get off his bloody soap-box and do a day 's work for a bloody change . |