Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of particular interest will be the information that : 1 ) Michael Smurfit subscribed for £500,000 ( and not £100,000 as reported elsewhere ) shares in UPH , the company that first acquired the site from the liquidator ; 2 ) Larry Goodman is also a shareholder in UPH through Paribas ; 3 ) John Finnegan , the principal in Finnegan Menton , was an advisory in the original sale to UPH ( at £4.4m ) and to Telecom ( at £9.4m ) only 17 months later ; 4 ) The site had been offered to other property developers by Finnegan Menton at £2.7m in 1988 ; 5 ) The sale to the so-called European consortium , i.e. Noel Smyth 's friends , ( at £6.75m ) was only fully concluded days before Telecom paid over £9.4m for the same site ; 6 ) The bank behind the Smyth/Doherty consortium in Ansbacher Bank . |
| 2 | Since one-day cricket does not count as first-class stuff — quite rightly , in the view of growling conservatives — there are no longer enough playing days for a man to pile up those 3,000 runs or those 200 wickets . |
| 3 | The amount left over shrinks by 16 p.c. to £12,734 which is just enough to cover day by day living expenses , as extrapolated from the National Expenditure Survey , without allowing for higher basic costs in London and the costs associated with employing a nanny . |
| 4 | The allegations were unverifiable , but what was clear was that the mixed population was not around to enjoy day one of its newly-bestowed freedom . |
| 5 | Hither thither crying day and night |
| 6 | They were also regularly penetrated day and night by a variety of trains of different lengths and sizes . |
| 7 | In 1773 when raw silk was difficult to obtain , the owner of a throwing mill in Sherborne wrote : … having discharged many of my hands which are either starving , or are become burdensome to the town , others are incessantly crying for a little work and could they obtain but a morsel of Barley-bread they are happy , they very often go days with little or no nourishment … the continued cries of the poor people complaining for want of the necessaries of life as well for want of employment is shocking indeed … and what is worse the overseers are not so bountiful to the necessitous as I could wish . |
| 8 | We had never consciously allocated days to each other ; it had just turned out that we had grabbed them and put our stamp on them . |