Example sentences of "a day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Day in the Life of an ACET Volunteer |
| 2 | You lose weight , you feel very weak , and pass motions up to 10 times a day . |
| 3 | Had to take twenty aspirin a day for ten years the pain was so great . |
| 4 | Many in the tourism industry believe the revenue created would far outweigh any protests that it was just another excuse for a day off . |
| 5 | Deputy unit manager Phil Brown , who has taken responsibility for the computer system , says : ‘ We can do the stocktake in about half a day with the Psion Organiser . |
| 6 | Stocktake can be done in half a day with the Psion Organiser |
| 7 | On average , Butler and his staff cook for 800 people a day and all the chefs have an input when it comes to menu suggestions . |
| 8 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 9 | I 'll check to see what 's on offer and in the meantime , how would you like a day 's pay here ? ’ |
| 10 | However , after an uncomfortable night with hardly any sleep , a rudimentary wash at the station , an hour 's work , a long train journey , a long walk to a day centre for a shower , and then with another long walk ahead of me , the return train journey , a further hour 's hard work and another uncomfortable night , day in , day out — I 'm a sprightly so-and-so but something else on top of all that did seem like perhaps too much of a good thing . |
| 11 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 12 | ‘ Make a day out of it . ’ |
| 13 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 14 | For example , on a day with a 3000 foot cloud base , climb to 2500 feet on the first climb , then fly off leaving that thermal , using the airbrakes if necessary to come down to try to find another one at 2000 feet . |
| 15 | For your first flight , choose a day with some wind to make it easier to keep the wings level and to keep the glider straight . |
| 16 | about a pint of milk a day |
| 17 | A woman who takes five or more alcoholic drinks a day two or three times a week while she is pregnant is at a very high risk of harming her baby . |
| 18 | After an eight-hour shift we went home — off duty — free men , while they in contrast went to their police houses and were available for ‘ discretional duty ’ , at the call of the system twenty-four hours a day ; proving we were independent free men and they were slaves ! |
| 19 | They booked a day , an evening . |
| 20 | It 's a Saturday night , the night that 's all right for late and mega-high for Sunday is a day of rest and you 've chosen to spend this Saturday night — let me not presume ! — evening , with me . |
| 21 | ‘ They only live a day , ’ said a loony from the next table . |
| 22 | A successful team may have to go through a number of fights during the course of a day 's competition so it is not at all unusual to see teams short-handed through injury in the final stages . |
| 23 | Therefore try to arrive at the venue a day early . |
| 24 | ‘ He would be better doing a day at the mill . ’ |
| 25 | When they had killed three sheep and roasted them in the middle of the street and ridden off with the rest of the flock , and the cattle and the horses and the hens , we buried the dead — we were at it for most of a day — and then we went off east into Arkaig . |
| 26 | ‘ I would wait a day or two , ’ Cameron answered reluctantly . |
| 27 | His mother and grandfather were eyeing him as he emerged from the bed and felt the nag of their expectation that he would go off at once to earn a day 's wage at Aberfeldy . |
| 28 | Cameron wanted time to think ; he was in a turmoil of emotions ; he felt for Sandy 's grievance even while he was blenching at the man 's mad certainty that a day of reckoning was near . |
| 29 | ‘ No — nothing for a day or two . ’ |
| 30 | A day 's work still to do before the Sabbath and they would have sore heads in the morning . |