Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wanted to get all of the washing out , then cross her fingers for a dry day with a bit of sunshine and a drying wind . |
| 2 | These would be my iron rations for a hard day 's cruising the streets in Armstrong . |
| 3 | Indeed , the primitive matchlocks could only be discharged a maximum of sixteen times during a whole day of battle . |
| 4 | Starting with three 1½ × ¼in strips of ash for each I intended to steam the strips , clamp to the forms for a few days , and then glue and reclamp . |
| 5 | On Wednesday County Coun. Colin Grant , who represents the Catterick area , said he had been alerting the Army , parish councils and schools to the apparent threat of about 140 additional lorry movements one every four minutes for a ten-hour day through the garrison . |
| 6 | She forced the Girls through their paces for a complete day , at the end of which they fell exhausted in a line on a bench . |
| 7 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
| 8 | His words of a few days ago came unbidden into her mind . |
| 9 | He argued : ‘ Three men , each standing for two two-hour sessions in a six-hour day would give better service than two men sharing the burden uninterrupted throughout the day . ’ |
| 10 | The table shows the number of mornings and afternoons that winds blew at various strengths over a 14 day period . |
| 11 | Take out of a typical day the classes you must attend , the time spent travelling , the hours you sleep , the eating , shopping , meeting friends , relaxing , watching television , listening to music and all the other activities of a busy day , and there is not much time left for study . |
| 12 | Such moments happened mostly during the ungodly first hours of a new day , those breathless hours when a soul sighs away from a dying body . |
| 13 | Here in North Ribblesdale , given fine weather , are all the ingredients for a splendid day of mild adventure . |
| 14 | But none of the employees are expected to take on extra duties after a hard day in the shop . |
| 15 | CLOWNS , games and children — 400 of them — were the main ingredients of a special day for LASMO employees in Jakarta . |
| 16 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 17 | Perhaps Isabelle had simply visited the château once as a guest , in the old days , before the Baron became ill , and had kept the postcard and label as souvenirs of a happy day . |
| 18 | Most Specials mix their part-time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 19 | Most of them mix their part time police duties with a full day 's work . |
| 20 | If the advice is more positive , will the parents be able to shrug off attitudes which have built up over decades in a few days ? |
| 21 | Flying above 1,500 or 2,000 feet on a reasonable day , you should concentrate mainly on climbing efficiently , selecting the next good clouds , and checking and confirming your position and progress on the map between thermals . |
| 22 | On the field a fortnight ago we unfortunately caught Frampton Rovers on a good day as they ran out 5–1 victors . |
| 23 | James IV first occupied the high ground of Flodden , but moved to Branxton hill when he realised the English were outflanking him , eluding Scottish patrols on a drizzly day . |
| 24 | This is Rupert , a 5 month old Barn Owl who was deserted by his parents at a few days old , but found in time to be saved and hand reared . |
| 25 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 26 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 27 | Relaxing after dinner with a cup of any of the new Kenco rich-tasting coffees is a great way of unwinding after the stresses and strains of a long day . |
| 28 | The strains of a hard day . ’ |
| 29 | In the confusion of battle an accident might decide the issue one way or another and the fortunes of a single day might undo the patient work of months or years . |
| 30 | A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day . |