Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 2 | We took it all down in one day , helped by Steve 's mothers ' little helpers . |
| 3 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |
| 4 | The Greeks may have called the angle the sun moved through in one day 1° , which is unc of a full turn … |
| 5 | 12 Finished Wallow barrow & Hawes water so that the thirty plates were got through in 36 days or 5 weeks . |
| 6 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 7 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 8 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 9 | That would come off in two days , she told me , and be replaced by a spatula splint , and yes , she would be on duty on Sunday . |
| 10 | Overladen buses trundle about the city , and a taxi fleet pensioned off in colonial days still plies its trade like a permanent veteran car rally . |
| 11 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 12 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |
| 13 | ‘ Everything was on and off in those days . |
| 14 | After all , South Africa was a long way off in those days and home leave must have been a great rarity . ’ |
| 15 | They now both work about 35–40 chargeable hours a week , with Roland notching this up in five days and Alison four — ‘ Fridays are sacrosanct , ’ she says . |
| 16 | Day in and day out , today they can Same with old mowing machines , they used to go out To open a field up in those days , they used to have to go round with a scythe . |
| 17 | Having said that , in order to get into production , or even to use it , you ca n't just set up in those days any more than you can today , now you need planning permission to , you need . |
| 18 | Y y you need n't lock your door up in those days you could leave your door open , and they 'd come and knock on your door and anybody in and I , I do n't think we ever had a key to our front door , but er no they were very friendly and there used to be an old midwife , Mrs her name was the , she used to charge half a crown for a birth . |
| 19 | But the test was , apparently , extremely effective : for if after this exercise the ground was judged right and the sowing proceeded satisfactorily , the husbandman expected the barley ‘ to be up in three days ’ . |
| 20 | You see , this really , this this parable i is the story of of , of something which is lost almost by default , it just wanders off , it just goes it 's own way it did n't set out to be lost , it did n't choose you know that i , it did n't go through earlier on in that day , in the little brain that the sheep has , there was n't the thought going , I am going to deliberately get lost today ! |
| 21 | But that sort of thing went on in those days , money was physically handled all the time . |
| 22 | It makes clear , firstly , that Eighth Army and AF HQ were brought fully into the picture as to the methods being used by 5 Corps to effect the repatriation of the anti-Tito Yugoslavs and , after all the discussions which had gone on in previous days , gave those methods their complete support . |
| 23 | I 'll be out in two days , I do n't care . ’ |
| 24 | The current contracts run out in 10 days and the generators are refusing to say how much they will buy in future . |
| 25 | And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days . |
| 26 | I shall be back in twenty-eight days to check your progress . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I will go to bring my Gohar back in five days , ’ Astrik went on dreamily . |
| 28 | You can borrow up to six items at any one time and most items you borrow are due back in 28 days ( not a month ) , but some in heavy demand are due back in 14 days . |
| 29 | I sometimes think that if we were back in biblical days and John the Baptist was running around looking for a wilderness he would n't go to the desert he would come to Creggan ! |
| 30 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |