Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , earth was not made in a day and there is always scope for a second project once the first has been completed and shown to be a success . |
| 2 | The last one 's meat had run out the previous day and if the new one 's meat was not salted within a day or two , there would be no pork or bacon for at least a month . |
| 3 | In the book I found a Spanish proverb that runs , No se ganó Zamora en una hora — ‘ Zamora is n't reached in an hour ’ , which is the equivalent of our ‘ Rome was n't built in a day ’ . |
| 4 | But they 've got to realise that Rome was n't built in a day ! |
| 5 | Rome , he well knows , was n't built in a day . |
| 6 | The Methodist chapel was built in 1856 , replacing an earlier building which was then used as a day school . |