Example sentences of "[subord] [adj] a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will be by helicopter and Hercules aircraft , taking less than half a day for the majority of the fighting troops . |
| 2 | Abundance often lies less than half a day 's jet flight from starvation . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Less than half a day old , and they are already ‘ The Deptford Riots ’ . |
| 6 | No more than three a day and if |
| 7 | Women , who have slower moving bowels than men , could derive a few calories less than 50 a day . |
| 8 | more than four a day if you 're a working man . |
| 9 | EIGHTY-FOUR women — more than two a day — sought refuge or help with Edinburgh Women 's Aid last month . |
| 10 | For instance , as long as you average 8,750 calories a week you will shed weight just as quickly by having as many as 1,870 a day on Saturdays and Sundays , and only 1,000 each weekday , as you would by counting precisely 1,250 calories a day for all seven days of the week . |