Example sentences of "[adv] a day [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In a fortnight 's time , or perhaps a day or so before ; it all depends on the weather . ’ |
| 2 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 3 | The Editor agreed and so a day or two later my edited statement was published in Burmese on the front page of the New Light of Burma in a translation which U Khin Maung , my talented and faithful Information Officer , approved . |
| 4 | A chital hind may last only a day but a chital stag weighing up to 200 lb ( 90 kg ) will feed a tiger for two or three days . |
| 5 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 6 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 7 | Although 20 per cent go out into the country once a week , the study showed that less than half of the population are monthly visitors and 80 per cent of visits are for only a day or less . |
| 8 | Only a day or two after The Graduate opened , someone came up to him in the street and said , ‘ You know something ? |
| 9 | With Thursday only a day or so hence , why did not he inform us there and then that he would be unable to convey our message to the queen our mother ? |
| 10 | With relief I realized that this was only a day or so away . |
| 11 | He himself was here for only a day or two . |
| 12 | In recent years he had stayed only a day or two , until , overcome with boredom , he had returned home to watch Mrs Thatcher 's Leader 's speech on the telly . |
| 13 | At worst she would be out of here in only a day or two . |
| 14 | You know perfectly well our enforced intimacy was a great strain on me after only a day or so . ’ |
| 15 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
| 16 | Dana made an exasperated sound and Claudia grinned ; it was always she who remembered their joint birthday on time and Dana , who gave elaborate presents , usually a day or so late . |
| 17 | Most of us defecate once a day and at a convenient time . |
| 18 | ( John Banton confirmed at lunch that the system is only used once a day and I was in a room where he suspects that the volume control may have been defective , He made a note to look into it . ) |
| 19 | He watered the jars with distilled water once a day and the mushrooms appeared after about a month ‘ if you were lucky ’ . |
| 20 | The fish are fed sparingly once a day and I carry out a 20% water change every ten days when I use a vacuum to clean the top layer of gravel . |
| 21 | During the course of a week , his nursery teacher gave him a simple task once a day and noted the time he spent on this task . |
| 22 | From November to April wild-bird food is available once a day and nuts are suspended in a holder . |
| 23 | Second , commodities and stocks are quoted almost continuously ( once a day or once a week ) ; art works are not . |
| 24 | Once a day or more 2% |
| 25 | Is that done once a day or each driver ? |
| 26 | Traditionally with relational database management systems companies would batch load data from the mainframe on maybe a a once a day or once a week basis and load that information onto the database systems and use it for decision support . |
| 27 | Should n't have give him that tin , that 's why dogs are that 's why you 're instructed to feed a dog once a day or whatever it is . |
| 28 | But Dan he he cried like once a day or something like that . |
| 29 | Films which have been left to dry too long ( e.g. a day or more ) may be very difficult to remove without tearing . |
| 30 | Rest here a day or two and let your hurts be tended before you return to your homes . |