Example sentences of "[art] [adj] part [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Walkers in a hurry can sneak across on a passenger ferry and over the facing hill on a cart track to Dundonnell , saving nearly twenty miles and the best part of a day . |
| 2 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 3 | Two thousand points is the usual size for a good evening 's battle , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
| 4 | Since it can take the best part of a day to book an international phone call , some foreign businessmen bring their own alternative — the Magnavox Magnaphone . |
| 5 | Shopworkers who spent the best part of a day locked out of work are sympathetic with the police , but angry with the terrorists . |
| 6 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
| 7 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |