Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | No sight of the climbers as a day passed that was like night . |
| 2 | The ability to climb , to sprint , to ride a time trial , to lead the bunch at 40 kilometres per hour through a day 's racing . |
| 3 | Many in the tourism industry believe the revenue created would far outweigh any protests that it was just another excuse for a day off . |
| 4 | After some discussion we decided to hold up the cheque for a day or two instead of refusing it , while I made some informal inquiries . |
| 5 | While the Rolling Stones had sucked the counter-culture , hell 's angels , hippies , street theatres , and rock fans into the park for a day , the Isle of Wight created an encampment that lasted a week , and peaked , for good and ill , for three days . |
| 6 | As long as you 've got Windows 3.1 , 2Mb of RAM , and a monitor and VGA card capable of displaying 256 colours , you can become Michael Winner for a day ! |
| 7 | Its accountants sit down with the auditor for a day of conjuring tricks and , hey presto , £15m gets lost in a cloud of smoke , leaving a mere £7m to find . |
| 8 | You would n't ten shillings for a day . |
| 9 | Or it would be approximately ten shillings for a day because we had to work Saturday morning , although it was at Newark and got to travel twenty |
| 10 | Then they go for a month to a , Sue 's going on a computing course for a day on the tenth of June , the date Clare goes to Brompton , Isle of Wight , so I 'll have to bring them home . |
| 11 | I mean it it 's only external speakers that we should er I mean they come to the University for a day , I can set that up I mean we can do exactly the same at university . |
| 12 | How many times during a day do we actually get through to the person we need to speak to ? |
| 13 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 14 | The target groups for a day hospital for dementing patients would be the 3 lowest categories — C , D and E. All category E patients would be included as well as a proportion of those in group D and a smaller proportion of group C. Although inevitably factors such as level of agreement to use day hospital facilities and the frequency of attendance of patients influence the final figure , 7–9 day places is not an unrealistic figure , though this exceeds current nationally derived guidelines . |
| 15 | I was not quite sure I heard the question right — how did I feel like taking Jane Asher to a Marine Nature Reserve for a day ? |
| 16 | An hour later , when the board had been filled and emptied a hundred times and the duster was whiter than Rose 's hair after a day under the machines , the children sat back , dazed by the splendour of Miss Harker 's academic prowess and not a whit the wiser for it . |
| 17 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 18 | As for this dose — ’ he frowned in thought , ‘ — perhaps enough to keep her out of action for a day . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Still keen on films after seeing them in action for a day ? ’ |
| 20 | The teachers will observe and , hopefully , participate in language lessons in local schools during a day or half-day each week . |
| 21 | Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved . |
| 22 | London team gives an honorarium to office sitters of £5–£10 for a day |
| 23 | It presented the industry through a day in the life of an extra , who after 13 takes — a day 's filming — fluffed his only line , so that the scene was dropped by the director . |
| 24 | Expect to pay around £20 for a day 's activities . |
| 25 | Men who had been unsuccessful in the search for a day 's work drifted into the dining rooms to pass the time away and many sat there on the bench seats , grateful for the warmth and a friendly chat . |
| 26 | She recently turned down £1,500 for a day 's work because she did not want to miss school . |
| 27 | His favourite relaxation was to toddle down to the quay and join the Royal Navy patrol boat for a day out . |
| 28 | Taxis are available for hire for full- or half-day excursions , and the cost for four compares very well with hiring a car for a day — without the trouble of driving yourself . |
| 29 | And now , Isabel had spoken the first words for a day or more , only to make them aggrieved , angry words , and incomprehensible too . |
| 30 | Er , and these resources , I think , are going to cost me er , X pound for a day . |