Example sentences of "[noun] for more [subord] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 2 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 3 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 4 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 5 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 6 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 7 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |