Example sentences of "within a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Leeds Permanent said yesterday it would announce an increase of at least 1.25 points ‘ within a day or two ’ . |
| 2 | Is the autopsy going to give us much idea when Angela Morgan died — I mean within a day or so ? ’ |
| 3 | It proposes a timetable for withdrawal , laying down that the Iraqis should start to leave at once , within a day of a ceasefire , and that they should be allowed to do so safely . |
| 4 | The Case of the Mystery Memo had become , within a day , a little drama he could act out for his colleagues . |
| 5 | SIR — With such well-informed media personnel telling us every hour on the hour that Messrs Kinnock , Hattersley , Patten , Mandela , Smith and Gould are ‘ expected ’ to make an announcement after the weekend , or within a day or two , stating that they will do this or that , probably because of this reason , possibly causing this response — is it absolutely necessary for us to have to endure the appearance of the person concerned to tell us what has been drummed into us until our eyes stick out like organ-stops ? |
| 6 | Above all , once a suitable base has been laid , your garage is up and working within about 48 hours , and often within a day . |
| 7 | If the patient takes more medicine than they need then there will be over-reaction but I have had very few cases of over-reaction and always the state produced has calmed within a day . |
| 8 | In cases of long standing chronic disease I expect the patient to start feeling better within a day or two and certainly would n't continue with a remedy if there was no improvement after a week . |
| 9 | Experiments which take weeks are tiresome to arrange , more likely to go wrong , and less fun to do than those which given an answer at once , or within a day or so . |
| 10 | Three-quarters of all suspects were dealt with within six hours ; 95 per cent emerged from custody within a day . |
| 11 | A year later , during the unusually hot summer of 1990 , he developed a minor break-out which lavender cleared up within a day or two . |
| 12 | He was not surprised , either , when all of them took to their beds within a day of arriving at the Palace . |
| 13 | Within a day the vet phoned me with the news that the dog had two intact testicles ( a matter I 'd hardly been musing upon ) and was suffering from a bit of diarrhoea — but had been put on a milk diet which would soon clear it up . |
| 14 | I have known patients who took three or four weeks to accomplish the first stage but who managed the second within a day or two . |
| 15 | Coming within a day of the Exxon Valdez oil disaster in Alaska , and with the nuclear catastrophe of Chernobyl still fresh in people 's minds , the sudden possibility of cheap , abundant , and pollution free energy captured everyone 's attention . |
| 16 | Within a day or two it appeared that a complete South African team would be fielded and Treviso might just see the start of rugby 's World War III . |
| 17 | Above : MATS Connie M494TW made its debut at Oshkosh and within a day 's flying had taken to loose formation work with her bigger sister . |
| 18 | Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced , and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbour , Mr Chant . |
| 19 | But without the help of clock or compass , the terns will arrive back within a day or two of the same date each year , around 6th May . |
| 20 | During the preceding century there had indeed been no pressure for subsistence , yet at the same time demand had been strong , especially in the east where the growth of a thriving cloth industry along the border , combined with the prosperity of the Devon stannaries , situated within a day 's journey by cart , had created a market lively enough to make small-scale farming a practicable alternative to labouring for wages . |
| 21 | Before the family are contacted an appointment is arranged with the nominated paediatrician so that they can see the family within a day of their being approached by the primary health care team . |
| 22 | Sure enough , within a day or two of this regrettable difference of opinion between the two physicians word went round the garrison that he had been seen up and about again . |
| 23 | Within a day or so the newcomers have appointments fixed with social security to get some money and when it looks as if they 're staying , negotiations begin with schools to admit their children . |
| 24 | In all the instances concerned in this case , the goods were traced and the thefts had occurred within a day or so of the goods being presented to Stardust Jewellers . |
| 25 | Within a day or so the goods had been divided between the landlord and Mahmoud and removed from the premises . |
| 26 | If Hugh and Prior Robert had not been well mounted , and the elderly but resolute former steward of Ramsey forced to go afoot , they could not have arrived at the cathedral priory of Worcester within a day of each other . |
| 27 | Jessica and I met when we joined the same company within a day of each other — both straight from school . |
| 28 | Often we would design something specially ; if someone rang and asked if we had a Mexican outfit for a feature on Mexican clothes we 'd say ‘ yes ’ and within a day have a sample made up which fitted in with a Mexican look . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I was very pleased and encouraged by the teamwork during the clean-up operation and production was up and running within a day . |
| 30 | We 'd keep them for a fortnight in those pigeon holes because most people claim stuff if they realize where they 'd left it within a day or two and then as the weeks went round we used to take stuff out of there and just lump it altogether , having duly labelled it up and erm record it and used to have tuppence an item if anybody lost anything . |