Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five minutes footage a day is good going and they use only 1 foot of film out of every 15 feet shot . |
| 2 | Oh your mum has a day off on a Friday does she ? |
| 3 | This chapter describes a day in the life of the Royal Hampshire Regiment , in this strife-torn corner of the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | In addition , opposition has its say , in the normal way , on any government motion and a government will normally accommodate a censure motion by the opposition allocating a day to its debate . |
| 5 | All of us who were not on the sales and marketing side spent a day a month selling . |
| 6 | IDEAL HOME 's Assistant editor Helen Barnett spent a day relaxing at Henlow Grange Health Farm in Bedfordshire where she tried both an aromatherapy and a reflexology massage . |
| 7 | It was my practice to arrive a day or two before the opening of a National Course in order to prepare the setting for my part in it ; and Basil usually found me in occupation of his normal workroom , setting up displays . |
| 8 | All that remained was for the Lord Chancellor by statutory instrument to appoint a day for s9 to come into effect . |
| 9 | It should be noted that parking without a permit attracts a Day Charge of £5.85 ( Central ) or £5.30 ( KB , VFS ) . |
| 10 | It should be noted that parking without a permit attracts a Day Charge of £5.50 ( Central ) or £5 ( KB , VFS ) . |
| 11 | The Limit has arranged — courtesy of EMI Records — for two readers to spend a day with chart band Marillion in their Aylesbury studio . |
| 12 | It was a pity Mollie had a day in hospital whilst you were in Scotland , but I am glad the holiday was a success otherwise — I do wanted you to like Scotland . |
| 13 | My cousins , & his wife , , sailed from Victoria , via Vancouver to spend a day with us in Seattle ( we had already met them at an all-family-reunion wedding in Cheltenham in August . ) . |
| 14 | Other popular trips include a day to Salzburg ; a full day trip to King Ludwig 's exquisite folly , Schloss Linderhof , Neuschwanstein and Oberammergau where the famous Passion Play takes place every ten years ; Venice and Lake Garda : Obergurgl ; and the Italian Dolomites . |
| 15 | I had supposed that Aunt Louise would be in bed , but she met me at the door ; opened it , in fact , and held it ready for me to come in , because there was something she was bursting to tell me : ‘ I 'm not staying in this cold place a day longer . ’ |
| 16 | The range of attitudes is illustrated by strategies that state , at one extreme , that ‘ all people should be provided with access to public transport services for three return trips a day to the nearest market town , providing for a journey to work in the morning , a mid-day shopping journey and a journey home in the evening … ’ , and suggest , at the other extreme , that all ‘ deep ’ rural areas should have a public transport service to a local centre on at least two days a week or that all sizeable villages should be served by public transport on one day a week ( Adams et al . |
| 17 | Most folk enjoy a day at the seaside … but Hereford 's hopes went out with the tide … they were washed away after only three minutes when Lightbourne made it one-nil … |
| 18 | The decision to quit the ERM followed a day of fiasco in which Lamont raised interest rates twice — by five per cent — then cancelled the last rise . |
| 19 | This old Westminster hand misses the joy of watching a backbench procedural expert destroy a day 's business , if not a bill , with a point of order or a single wrecking amendment . |
| 20 | MORE than 100 youngsters attended a day for middle distance athletes held at Cleveland County Stadium in Middlesbrough . |
| 21 | SUBSTITUTE goalkeeper Jan Stejskal completed a day of misery for injury-hit Queen 's Park Rangers by gifting Wimbledon 's winner to Robbie Earle 11 minutes from time at Loftus Road . |
| 22 | We carve moulds in wood and it takes a craftsman with a spokes have a day to do each one . |
| 23 | Just at present it did n't seem to matter if Camille missed a day of school . |
| 24 | Joint organisers the Spastics Society and the Cancer Research Campaign promise a day of fun for the family when people of all ages will be challenged to travel 12 kilometres of the unopened bypass using any form of non-motorised travel , the crazier the better . |
| 25 | Day Six : An early start form Decin sees a day with landfalls at Hrensko and then Bad Schandau . |
| 26 | THE WHO will be 25 years old next month , and not one of the band looks a day over 50 . |
| 27 | Chevron 's swift counter-attack came a day after Pennzoil announced it had spent $2.1 billion to build up a nine per cent share stake in Chevron and said it planned to continue investing in the oil giant as a passive shareholder . |
| 28 | has Matthew got a day off ? |
| 29 | • Czechoslovakian studies show that children aged 6 to 14 years who reside near an aluminium smelter ingest more than 2 milligrams fluoride a day from air , water , animal foodstuffs and plants although their drinking water was not fluoridated . |
| 30 | The conference started a day earlier this time with the AGM commencing on the Friday and finishing on Saturday morning . |