Example sentences of "single day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pincher Martin performs an extreme form of modernism 's abbreviation of the span of narrative into single days , reflecting the whole life of its protagonist supposedly within the single moment of his death . |
| 2 | In some countries where religion is not acknowledged to be in any way a necessary part of life , and also to a lesser degree in some where it is , the very important regular holidays , i.e. the single days or short periods of relief from work , which are spaced throughout the year , and which are additional to the long summer vacations , are fixed by arbitrary law and not by reference to religious feast days . |
| 3 | The word originally denoted the many single days when the labourer might break from his toil to go to mass and celebrate a saint in other , mundane ways ; as , in the dull prose of the twentieth century , on a bank holiday . |
| 4 | Lord Carnarvon , 68 , has been a friend and confidant of the Queen since her single days . |
| 5 | If he had heard her do that in their single days he would never have married her . |
| 6 | She was now 15lb ( 7kg ) heavier than she had been in her single days ; she felt tired and run down , and suffered with migraines , abdominal bloating and increasing premenstrual symptoms including irritability , nervous tension , depression , tearfulness , confusion , weight gain , sore breasts and insomnia . |
| 7 | A small number of patients admitted to missing the capsules on single days but only one patient admitted to stopping treatment for several weeks . |
| 8 | A single day is not long enough to illustrate fully the roles played , or the variety of jobs undertaken by the UK Infantry Battalion of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) — AMF(L) . |
| 9 | On one single day last year , a satellite spotted 8,000 fires . |
| 10 | And with ‘ perfumed strips ’ now impregnated into the pages of so many magazines , it 's possible to try new scents for a single day without venturing further than your friendly newsagent . |
| 11 | At a White House press conference , Mr Bush said : ‘ I carry the fate of the hostages with me every single day . |
| 12 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 13 | But the occasional $500m-worth of speculative trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on a single day — as happened on January 17th — and a booming kerb market make it clear that a great deal of loose cash is still swirling around . |
| 14 | The price of gold plunged 7% in a single day immediately after the Gulf war broke out — evidently on hopes that the war would be brief . |
| 15 | To be a free-dinner kid was to enjoy a full stomach every single day of the week , puddings and all . |
| 16 | If Robert came to you and said in his gentle , somehow caressingly placid voice that I had admitted or confessed to him in ‘ obvious distress ’ that I had pushed my penis up between the hired legs of more than one hundred and fifty tarts ( including three on one single day , or two on one single bed ) then you would probably believe him . |
| 17 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 18 | So to be concerned with fashion , to dress up and have fun with clothes , is to be stupid , even whilst every single day the fashion , advertising , and plastic surgery businesses ( not to mention slimming aids , diet books , fitness centres , cosmetics industry ) pump millions of pounds into all these things . |
| 19 | The extended histories of Victorian fiction are replaced in Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ) by concentration within a single day of consciousness : random memories incorporate the past , rarely chronologically . |
| 20 | He was used to walking all over the city , as if searching , as if dedicated to the act of searching , every single day ; and now he came to The Bar every single night , and did his searching there . |
| 21 | I worked every single day and at night too , if I got the chance . |
| 22 | I personally work 24 hours every single day of every week , relentlessly , and the dividends in that area certainly do n't pay off . |
| 23 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 24 | In a single day , without leaving the ridge , a fit walker can pick off seven Munros and stagger back home to an orgy of peak-ticking at the back of the Munro book . |
| 25 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 26 | More than 24,000 birds have been counted at Strathbeg during the course of a single day , and many more visit the reserve throughout the year . |
| 27 | Stafford , who sometimes spent £16,000 in a single day on antiques at Christie 's sales in London , was never troubled by his conscience . |
| 28 | Recently , three ferox weighing over 20lb were taken in a single day . |
| 29 | Nor did I know that , in the normal human body , up to 100,000 cells can become cancerous every single day . |
| 30 | Mr. Cleaver also omits to mention any of the many infiltrations , bombardments and acts of terror towards a country which has not known a single day of peace in 44 years . |