Example sentences of "[prep] [det] than [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can last for less than a day or up to three days , varying with individuals , breed , age , degree of contact with a male and geographical location . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 4 | All records were of single birds which rarely stayed for more than a day . |
| 5 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 6 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 7 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 8 | Trainee dealers put on debt collecting for more than a day or two at a stretch would often walk out of Harvard from sheer boredom and frustration . |
| 9 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |
| 10 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 11 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 12 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 13 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 14 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 15 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 16 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 17 | But it emerged that it was unlikely the child was on her own for more than a day , as neighbours volunteered to look after her . |
| 18 | Result — a rock-steady garden seat , built in less than a day , for less than £40 . |
| 19 | Quite apart from the fact that the hardware was working within one hour of delivery we found that the basic functions of each of the packages had been picked up in less than a day . |
| 20 | The Ruth-W discharged the first 2,911 tonne cargo of 330 concrete coated steel pipes in less than a day , a cargo which was the forerunner of four shipments a week up to the end of the year , a total of 150,000 tonnes . |
| 21 | Travellers today can cross the Alps in less than a day due to the excellent highways and railroads . |