Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dadda only smoked when he was contented and then he would get through forty or fifty a day , bringing on a cough and staining his fingers yellow-brown . |
| 2 | Forty or fifty a day , three gallons of beer , drop dead one of these days — " |
| 3 | Once they were on the road they had their own coach , staying a day or half a day in each town . |
| 4 | All this time she kept up her cryings and roarings , indeed , when she was ‘ barren of tears a day or half a day ’ , she was much depressed . |
| 5 | And each visit is a session whether it 's a day or half a day or twenty |
| 6 | Even now , two or three a day is all she needs . |
| 7 | Only two or three a day and they came dead slow round the bend in case there were sheep on the track . |
| 8 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 9 | Once ensconced in her burrow , the female mite will soon begin to lay eggs , which accumulate behind her at the rate of three or four a day . |
| 10 | Or three a day or four a day . |
| 11 | Three or four a day . |
| 12 | The books have been stolen at the rate of twenty or thirty a day . |
| 13 | Think about it , is it twenty or thirty a day ? |
| 14 | ‘ She arranged for me to be companion to an old lady , the mother of a friend of theirs , for an hour or two a day . |
| 15 | He 'd have paid a small army of little boys a penny or two a day to run up and down the hill with buckets of the stuff . ’ |
| 16 | I myself spend an hour or two a day in the garden hut with my father-in-law , dismantling the baby 's cot and highchair . |
| 17 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 18 | Abundance often lies less than half a day 's jet flight from starvation . |
| 19 | It does , however , illustrate the wild contrasts of California , where large cities , near-deserted beaches , scorching deserts and cool redwood forests all lie within less than half a day 's drive of each other . |
| 20 | One day a messenger came from the great city more than half a day 's journey away across the river , to say that the great king had decided that he would like to have a wife . |
| 21 | Less than half a day old , and they are already ‘ The Deptford Riots ’ . |
| 22 | " Certainly it would be a tragedy to see the two most powerful nations on earth destroying each other in such a way , " he agreed , " and let us pray that such a day never comes . " |
| 23 | No more than three a day and if |
| 24 | Women , who have slower moving bowels than men , could derive a few calories less than 50 a day . |
| 25 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |
| 26 | EIGHTY-FOUR women — more than two a day — sought refuge or help with Edinburgh Women 's Aid last month . |
| 27 | That 's where you can smoke and a hundred and fifty a day ! |
| 28 | Between 60 and 70 a day have been attending the job help centre on site and quite a number have found other work . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Seven and six a day |