Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 2 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 3 | In his Introduction to the Paston Letters J. Gairdner pointed out that letters were often dated as being written on a particular day of the week , say Monday or Wednesday , before or after such a celebration . |
| 4 | Dollars and Western valuables were not hoarded against a rainy day in the manner of Latin American dictators . |
| 5 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 6 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 7 | In this they have the basis to succeed , and one teacher noted after a drop-in day for former pupils : |
| 8 | In fact , Richard 's hundredth game co-incided with a red-letter day in the Palace annals , for it was the occasion of our Zenith Data Systems Cup Final victory over Everton at Wembley , in which the young defender had an exemplary afternoon and was a worthy member of the team that gained our 4–1 success . |
| 9 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 10 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 11 | Gastric emptying was assessed on a different day after overnight fasting by means of 10 radioopaque markers ingested with a standard test meal . |
| 12 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 13 | To illustrate , suppose that all dividend payments are concentrated on a single day in each quarter . |
| 14 | And suddenly she laughed , a gay peal , refreshed by a whole day of escape from her selected cage . |
| 15 | The argument might be put forward , therefore , that the treatment slows the body clock enough for it now to be adjusted to a 24-hour day by normal time-cues . |
| 16 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 17 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 18 | The Canal Bus Pass included in all Amsterdam Travel Service holidays can be used for the full duration of this special cruise or combined with a full day of visits to other places of interest . |
| 19 | Jean-Pierre , Denise and the two Danielles were taken round East Lothian schools on Thursday and Friday then were left with a free day on Saturday . |
| 20 | Friday was taken with a full day at the Severn Valley Railway at Kidderminster . |
| 21 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 22 | Appropriately , the Wilcox narrative seems to be the book of his most widely read by the kind of people who have just put in a tough day at the office or have two weeks on the beach before clocking back on . |
| 23 | As the event was filmed on a hot day in June Harry has to prepare a batch of duplicates , which awaited their call in the cool of the fruit room . |
| 24 | Mornings were frost-blue , breath turned to fog and we were dressed for a cold day in the Himalayas , cocooned in pile clothing and moonboots . |
| 25 | The government had originally announced on Feb. 14 that the election would be held on March 28-29 ; on March 28 it was announced that polling would be extended for a further day on account of heavy rains which had led to voters being discouraged by transport difficulties . |
| 26 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
| 27 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 28 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |