Example sentences of "[adv] a whole day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She is away for hours ; perhaps a whole day . |
| 2 | I had had a whole afternoon spent upon me , been the centre of attention , cost the State a fortune and my wife had given up a whole day of precious work to be with me . |
| 3 | The jury in the Severn Bridge gantry trial has been sent to a hotel for the night after a whole day trying to reach a verdict . |
| 4 | Just think , we 'll have practically a whole day together … . ’ |
| 5 | You see , a tour of this magnitude throws up a forest of red tape for the intrepid journo to fight through and you can spend practically a whole day being shuffled from one ‘ no ’ man to the next , understandably concerned to protect their baby from unofficial liggers and prowling hacks . |
| 6 | After a marathon round of negotiations , lasting almost a whole day , we managed to whittle it down , with Yong 's expert assistance , to the equivalent of about twenty American dollars per island visited . |