Example sentences of "[adj] a day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do this a day or two before planting , so that after one or two waterings , the soil under the planting position is thoroughly wet , with the moisture where it should be — deep under . |
| 2 | The road goes on , in spectacular scenery , to Ullapool , thirty-four miles from Kylesku , a journey now easily accomplished in an hour but which took half a day before the roads were widened and improved to their present high standard . |
| 3 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 4 | A ‘ session ’ may be a half a day or a whole day . |
| 5 | Plan to take your team away for half a day or a day . |
| 6 | But having done it , having completed the half a day or whatever it is we have , you know it 's not really a case of saying Right well that 's it . |
| 7 | People who are n't staying at the centre can book for half a day or day long activity sessions too . |
| 8 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 9 | 1 seminar of half a day or 1 day |
| 10 | Vern Clarke , 19 , a London Underground maintenance worker , caused the trial to be aborted , held up court proceedings for half a day and cost the taxpayer more than £7,000 . |
| 11 | This could make one gram of tritium in half a day and as a byproduct give back some of the electrical power — one megawatt — from the fusion processes involved . |
| 12 | They 'd staked out Culley 's flat for half a day and most of the night . |
| 13 | I can offer you half a day and then we can take the later flight . ’ |
| 14 | Erm , and i i , I think people quite often feel very bad when they try to stop smoking , I I ha , used to smoke about forty a day and I 've now succeeded in stopped for about four years , but I know that I did have several failures and whe when when you try to stop and and fail you feel extremely bad and low and depressed about yourself , and people probably need quite a lot of support . |
| 15 | It was there in order that people might have a picnic by a monument , on just such a day as this . |
| 16 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 17 | I decided to do half a dozen a day until I 'd got through them . |
| 18 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 19 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 20 | No more than three a day and if |
| 21 | The mother 's heartbeat is a constant feature of the unborn child 's life : sixty beats a minute , 3,600 an hour , 86,400 a day and a staggering 24 million throughout the whole period of pregnancy . |
| 22 | It is difficult to believe that she was not embalmed and Elizabeth Southwell , a minor courtier , relates how Lord Cecil ordered it to be done and Clapham , in his Elizabeth of England , states that ‘ The Queen 's body was left in a manner alone a day or two after her death and meane persons [ embalmers ] had access to it . ’ |
| 23 | Get two two a day and it leaves er four pounds ninety . |
| 24 | But er I did two or three hundred , four hundred , five hundred a day and I got fed up on it and I said to the gaffers one day , if you do n't change me from this job I 'm leaving , so they says oh we do n't want you to do that , best filer we 've had . |
| 25 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |