Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her Yorkshire childhood sounds unremarkable — lacking in affection perhaps , but it was not unusual for a young girl of a certain class and a certain generation to be brought up by a nanny rather than a mummy ; to be sent away when she was ‘ five years old and a day ’ ; to be schooled in a certain stiff-upper-lip mentality ; to show no emotion . |
| 2 | Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings . |
| 3 | That women 's seventy and a day and she 's got the body of a young girl ! |
| 4 | The countryside is fairly flat but a day trip to the coast provides some interest for walkers . |
| 5 | There 's plenty of detail in the smaller pictures of the humans , too , and the book as a whole adds up to a great experience for a child — almost as good as a day out at the zoo ! ( 2–5 ) |
| 6 | A trail of suds as long as a day 's walk |
| 7 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 8 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 9 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 10 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 11 | As a rough guide , if a fever persists more than a day or two in a child under 2 years then consider seeking advice . |
| 12 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 13 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 14 | All records were of single birds which rarely stayed for more than a day . |
| 15 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 16 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 17 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 18 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 19 | To begin with it is best to keep the adults for no more than a day , then let them free . |
| 20 | Trainee dealers put on debt collecting for more than a day or two at a stretch would often walk out of Harvard from sheer boredom and frustration . |
| 21 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |
| 22 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 23 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 24 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 25 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 26 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 27 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 28 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 29 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 30 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |