Example sentences of "day and [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 2 | In my day and at a good school , it was easy , as you moved up from class to class , to miss out totally on some period of English history — the only history that was taught . |
| 3 | Most of us defecate once a day and at a convenient time . |
| 4 | The patients were asked to keep a record of all foods they had eaten during a typical midweek day and during a typical weekend day , once every three month period . |
| 5 | We emphasised that people 's body weight fluctuates during the day and during a menstrual cycle . |
| 6 | Make sure you weigh yourself daily , preferably at a similar time each day and in a similar state of dress or undress . |