Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] a day [conj] " in BNC.

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1 The key is to be prepared to wait a day or two if necessary , which is no bad thing as the North Rim is a beautiful spot in its own right .
2 However , I have asked her to take the time necessary to ensure all photographic material is properly packed and sent by recorded delivery , even if this means a day or two 's delay .
3 Slow lingering illnesses may require only one remedy a day or less .
4 Where the remedy has been too ‘ strong ’ for the patient 's vitality this has always shown itself on the first few doses and it has merely been necessary to wait a day or two for the over-reaction to settle and then to begin again using greater dilution .
5 Taskopruzade and Mecdi assign this event to the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) , saying that as a result of a quarrel between Molla Fenari and that sultan , the former abandoned his posts and went off to Karaman where the emir gave him a salary of 1,000 akce a day and each of his pupils 500 akce a day .
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