Example sentences of "in a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One time , a tinker put in a day here , mending pans , and at night off he went , with my best tools hidden in his bundle . |
| 2 | They 'll be with you again in a day or two , if you do n't hold us up . |
| 3 | I 'll be out in a day or so . |
| 4 | There is nothing illegal nor immoral in a club chairman 's demonstration of ball skills but the contrast , in a day , between the image of a shy , reclusive , multi-millionaire property tycoon and that of a terrace tearaway was too sudden to digest . |
| 5 | In image terms , the one-man show is a dramatised version of a colour supplement ‘ Room Of My Own/Life In A Day ’ feature . |
| 6 | The latest Disneyland , near Tokyo , has been a roaring success , recently beating the world record for the most visitors at an attraction in a day . |
| 7 | A five-person team could cover 50 metres in a day , if the work is of a minimal nature . |
| 8 | ‘ Then I said what I can do — organise , put twenty-four hours in a day and I 'm energetic . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh no , not again , ’ remarks an attractive blonde whose car is stopped for the second ti me in a day . |
| 10 | Few complain about ‘ Just looking thanks ’ in a town where stock is displayed in authentic settings ; where you can walk the patch in a day ; where dealers make time to talk and where Bath 's famous light lends allure to even the diciest piece . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In a day that saw 100 minutes of playing time lost , first to crowd trouble and then to the weather , Wasim Akram finished with five for 101 after the tourists had gone from 181 for three overnight to 324 all out . |
| 13 | A 120 kg ( 260 lb ) Dall 's porpoise , a fast-swimming and deep-diving species , consumed 15 kg ( 3 lb ) of fish daily without increasing its weight while held in captivity in California — equivalent to a human eating 7–10 kg ( 15–22 lb ) of steak in a day . |
| 14 | Though announcement of the link allowed short-term interest rates to fall by a percentage point to 11.4% , and pushed Swedish share prices up 3.5% in a day , it caused chaos in the lucrative Stockholm business of ‘ basket arbitrage ’ . |
| 15 | It was also sad that no English spinner had been seen throughout the rubber , and that both sides blatantly and cynically ignored the ruling about bowling 90 overs in a day , so that play just continued until the light faded every day of the series ; those two factors left many people fearful for the game 's future . |
| 16 | All in a day 's work : since Aesculapius , doctors have enjoyed complaining . |
| 17 | If you feel like showing me a few pages in a day or two , I would be pleased , and I 'm sure your other readers out there would be fascinated by a full autobiography . |
| 18 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 19 | The CO took his time as if savouring a titbit of information certain to delight its recipient , ‘ As you know , camp breaks up in a day or two . ’ |
| 20 | Dr Michael Bentley has suggested , in his book The Liberal Mind 1914–1929 and in at least one article , that the real problem of the Liberal Party was this lack of flexibility and willingness to think beyond the old shibboleths in a day and age which required new initiatives . |
| 21 | ‘ I can do in a day what she does in a week , ’ she said , shaking her duster out of the window on to the roses below . |
| 22 | A happy thought is that a gain of 2–3 lb ( 1 kg ) in a day is extremely unlikely to be due to fat alone . |
| 23 | To add 2 lb ( just under 1 kg ) of body fat in a day you need to eat about 7000 calories in addition to the normal amount you need to maintain body weight ( about 2000 calories ) . |
| 24 | So , if you ate , say , thirty Mars bars in a day you might just put on 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat . |
| 25 | So you would need to eat between eighteen and thirty cakes to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in a day . |
| 26 | Even a normal 2000 calories-worth of meals in a day would need to be supplemented by fourteen cakes at 500 calories each , or around twenty bars of chocolate , to add 2 lb ( 1 kg ) of fat in one day . |
| 27 | You will not see vast amounts of fat lost in a day , but you will come to understand how your behaviour relates to your body weight , and you will also avoid getting a horrendous shock when you step on the scales . |
| 28 | Clearly you are not going to do all this in an hour , in an afternoon , or even in a day or two . |
| 29 | In a day of fast-moving developments , Mr Yeltsin also took a shot at Ukraine , with a threat to take the entire Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , and saying he was taking over border troops in the Transcaucasus . |
| 30 | The Italian alert provided the main drama in a day when the diplomatic noose around Libya was tightened . |