Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] day [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Most Specials mix their part-time police duties with a full day 's work .
2 Most of them mix their part time police duties with a full day 's work .
3 On my way home I reflect on the pleasures of a good day 's fishing .
4 Courses vary a great deal in both their length and the number of people who attend them , and it would clearly be unjustified to assume that a single course on one topic was outweighed by , say , five courses on another if the single course involved fifty teachers in a full day 's attendance each week for a term , while each of the five other courses lasted only a couple of hours and catered for half a dozen teachers .
5 Miraculously , when invited for the Hunt Ball , he had asked if he might bring an old school friend who was staying with him , hiring horses for a few days ' hunting .
6 On August 9 , 1892 , Lancashire defeated Somerset by eight wickets in a single day 's play
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