Example sentences of "[adj] a day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave to soak — do this a day in advance , so that the currants swell . |
| 2 | This course involves attendance on either half a day per week or one evening per week for one year . |
| 3 | We took half a day as the minimum duration for a course , recording that amount of time even for courses which , for example , took place after school hours . |
| 4 | had about half a day about there , waiting for boat to take us across to France . |
| 5 | From a practical point of view , the introduction of tags saved half a day on the production of a 24 page newsletter compared to using the previous version of PageMaker . |
| 6 | Headmaster — We will have only half a day at school this morning . |
| 7 | But we only went for half a day at that period and then for a month or so then the troops went away again , we got back into our own school . |
| 8 | but we spent , spent the , well half a day at Queens Terminal at Paper Gallery |
| 9 | Deputy unit manager Phil Brown , who has taken responsibility for the computer system , says : ‘ We can do the stocktake in about half a day with the Psion Organiser . |
| 10 | Stocktake can be done in half a day with the Psion Organiser |
| 11 | From Britain — you 'd probably smuggle it to France , put it through a maze , you know , take it south , country roads ; that 's half a day with two drivers . |
| 12 | Erm you have in front of you er background material that 's been submitted by way of statement and erm a half a day of discussion today plus plus this evening . |
| 13 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 14 | Knowing the speed that floppy disks take to format , I allowed half a day for the job , but it was done in a couple of minutes — it 's the absolutely essential task of backing up files that takes the time . |
| 15 | He had to join the end of the queue and wait half a day before reaching him . |
| 16 | A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck . |
| 17 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 18 | Back on Praslin we spent half a day in the reserve of Valle/1e de Mai , which is probably of more interest to a botanist . |
| 19 | A day trip to buy 1½in ash , and half a day in a neighbour 's workshop machining left me with a large number of very small sections , and another project underway . |
| 20 | You do n't have to spend half a day in a moving microwave oven racing lorries down the autostrada . |
| 21 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 22 | If you 've smoked 30 a day for 20 years , is it worth giving up ? |
| 23 | Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling . |
| 24 | At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation . |
| 25 | After such a day of damage it was a somewhat depleted fleet which set off on the return journey on Sunday . |
| 26 | ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened . |
| 27 | Domestically , there are eleven shuttle flights a day to London Heathrow and six a day to London Gatwick , plus daily services of varying frequencies to Belfast , Edinburgh , Glasgow , Aberdeen and Newcastle . |
| 28 | We will be paying you a fee of 100 a day for work on the production and one day 's preparation i.e. a total of 1200 . |
| 29 | It was too fine a day for the car . |
| 30 | The US authorities expected about 300,000 applications during that period , but could process only about 350 a day at the Moscow embassy . |