Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a day [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century . |
2 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
3 | ‘ He would be better doing a day at the mill . ’ |
4 | He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce . |
5 | One finds in Barkan/Ayverdi a summary of Molla Husrev 's for several in Istanbul , dated Rabi " I 870/October-November 1465 , amongst the expenditures from which are several in connection with a medrese : 20 akce a day for teaching ( tedris ) , 16 akce a day for the students and so on . |
6 | Smoking : ‘ Twenty Woodbine a day since the age of twelve . ’ |
7 | I was , then , both surprised and disappointed to discover a day before the visit that Sir James would be coming alone . |
8 | Gold Blend sales rocketed by 40 per cent to 10 million cups a day through the award-winning campaign . |