Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that 's not particularly sensational , and that 's where the drugs and the alcohol abuse level comes across , and that is the emotive term , but what I 'm saying really is the symptoms which that teachers are displaying of stress manifest themselves in an increase in er abuse of alcohol which could only be the odd extra drink , or the odd 5 cigarettes a day , and sleeping tablets , and that becomes an issue when you have n't got a teacher who 's not in control the following day , but you certainly have a teacher who 's not 100% , and that 's where the effect on the child tends to occur . |
| 2 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 3 | A courtesy bus operates between the two several times a day . |
| 4 | At home , each patient was instructed to practice contracting the sphincter several times a day ( at least 20 times three times daily ) for 20–30 seconds as directed in conditioning sessions . |
| 5 | The following day Charlie managed a little food , took a few painful steps the day after and could run a week later . |
| 6 | Cauterets claims to have a more plentiful supply of sulphurous waters than any other spa on earth , to the tune of a million and a half health-giving litres a day , and this is a claim you will not wish to dispute once you have pushed open the swing doors to the neo-Roman ‘ Baths of Caesar ’ and breathed in the warm and all too recognizably sulphur-laden air . |
| 7 | However , in a separate report compiled by consultant analyst Brian Sturgess , ‘ The Funding Bible ’ , the BBC is urged to take advertising , predicting that a mere two minutes a day on both BBC1 and BBC2 would net the Corporation £433m by the year 2000 at 1991 prices . |
| 8 | The whole regiment had been cut to emergency rations of a mere three meals a day , and those cold and rain soaked , eaten in miserable silence . |
| 9 | John-William insisting on having everything just so , Amabel herself taking time and immense delight in her choice of furnishings , living a dozen delightful dramas every day over Aubusson rugs and inlaid cabinets , the recklessness of silk damask on newly plastered walls , the sheer extravagances of crystal and china which Linnet — the dear child — had encouraged her to commit . |
| 10 | Those keeping to a strict 1,000 calories a day allowance will usually find this to be a realistic target . |
| 11 | She was interested to learn more about natural irradiation and how our bodies are transfixed by a million cosmic rays a day , like the arrows that pierced Saint Sebastian . |
| 12 | Obviously , if you followed a stricter diet , allowing you only 1,000 calories a day , you would draw an additional 500 calories a day from your body fat . |
| 13 | More than 250,000 visitors have enjoyed the excitement of the York Model Railway — the land that took over 10,000 hours to build and where our High Speed Intercity train travels an amazing 14 miles a day . |
| 14 | One new shopping centre planned for Budapest would increase traffic in and out the city by an estimated 20,000 cars a day . |
| 15 | The eight-kilometre Somport tunnel , which was to have received funds from the EC , would have cut driving times between France and Spain by two hours and would have been used by an estimated 1,000 trucks a day . |
| 16 | But four main factors are singled out by Chris Green for the currently greatly improved outlook : the record investment currently being made , at the end of 1989 amounting to an astonishing million pounds a day ; the success of the Networker train whose carriages in 1989 were being delivered at the rate of one a day ; the enormous level of London station development both enhancing the environment ( who at the start of the 1980s would have thought of treating a terminus as a shopping precinct ? ) and producing revenue on the grand scale ; and the steady introduction of Integrated Electronic Control Centres ( discussed in detail in the signalling chapter ) . |