Example sentences of "[prep] [num] day [prep] the next " in BNC.
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1 | How I long to see the black kid depicted as something other than the tam-donning , dope-smoking , unemployed gang member , structuring his life around reggae music , blues parties , and thieving , and phrasing his life 's ambitions in terms of one day to the next with little or no positive orientation to the world and an outlook flavoured by prejudice and ignorance . |
2 | Now , tonight , there is nothing to look forward to , no reason to get up in the morning or move from one day into the next . |
3 | I just see everyone pissed , or on the Valium , tryin' to get from one day to the next . |
4 | Coming from Russia , where freedom of the press has been not so much unknown as uncomprehended since long before the Revolution , he is shocked to discover that a free press disseminated all kinds of false , partial and invented information and that journalists contradict themselves from one day to the next without shame and without apology . |
5 | We were never sure we 'd be alive from one day to the next . |
6 | ‘ Kavanagh said the steak was n't great but that the lamb was good , ’ Maggie added but Moran was already on his way out again , muttering that not even simple things were made clear in this house and if simple things could n't be made clear how was a person ever to get from one day to the next in this world . |
7 | If your weight increases by a few pounds ( about 1 kg ) from one day to the next , do nothing for a day or two to try to redress the balance ; your weight could well drop back quite naturally . |
8 | The pleasures can be for yourself : experimenting with make-up and clothes , looking different from one day to the next , expressing different sides to yourself . |
9 | This is an adventure cruise in the best romantic tradition as you cruise around the beautiful Greek Islands , the scene changing from one day to the next , diving into the clear , blue water as you anchor for the night , or sipping your cooling drink as the harbour lights of a new port twinkle in the distance . |
10 | This structured response is preferable to reactive or crisis management which is found where objectives are unclear , plans haphazard and where the organisation lives from one day to the next . |
11 | ‘ At home you hardly know whether it 's raining from one day to the next but here you feel better every time the sun comes out . |
12 | After all , a change in temperature from 15°C to 20°C from one day to the next is nothing to get too excited about . |
13 | Once I could have seen them off by asserting that I had no interest in such things , preferring to live from one day to the next , unfettered by possessions and responsibilities . |
14 | It 's never the same from one day to the next . ’ |
15 | ‘ He says the players would often not see him from one day to the next . |
16 | For some there were rigid routines repeated in the same way from one day to the next ; for others , routines were more flexible . |
17 | Only the dome needs to be replaced , but the son of the architect is still alive , is himself an architect and has all the plans , so restoration work could begin from one day to the next . |
18 | A non-uniform irregular disposition of work units from one day to the next would be disorderly . |
19 | mainly in those areas which concern women ; it is impossible for them to disappear from one day to the next . |
20 | ‘ … it is clear that , even on the absurd assumption that from one day to the next , or even from one generation to the next , the bourgeoisie would all take the places of workers and vice versa , nothing fundamental about capitalism would be changed , since the places of bourgeoisie and proletariat would still be there , and this is the principal aspect of the reproduction of capitalist relations ’ ( Poulantzas , 1975 , p. 33 ) . |
21 | book , then it 's gon na get forgo , forgotten from one day to the next . |
22 | Even when she was well , I had never been able to relax because I never knew from one day to the next how I was going to find her . |
23 | I do n't know , Victorine said : it was all pulled down from one day to the next , and you know it happened during the war , everything was topsy-turvy then . |
24 | This is usually because it is felt that they can not cope with anything at a higher level or with more demanding work — they ‘ can not concentrate ’ , ‘ can not transfer knowledge from one situation to another ’ , ‘ can not remember from one day to the next ’ , ‘ can not cope with sequential tasks ’ , ‘ get confused by experiencing more than one way of doing something ’ , and most definitely ‘ can not do fractions ’ . |
25 | We were just thrown out from one day to the next . |
26 | Consequently thousands of workers may be sacked from one day to the next . |
27 | Table 6.4 shows that on about 75% of occasions the state of the atmosphere ( foggy or clear ) remained the same from one day to the next , and a change from one state to another occurred on about 25% of occasions . |
28 | They had also hired a French teacher , whose name Robert was unable to remember from one day to the next . |
29 | If the narrative of the drama continues from one day to the next , it makes sense to do at least some drama in the classroom most days . |
30 | This has shown that the Government is incapable of keeping its word , not just from one election to another but from one day to the next . ’ |