Example sentences of "[noun pl] for 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Here in North Ribblesdale , given fine weather , are all the ingredients for a splendid day of mild adventure . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 9 | Ann will look after things for a few days . |
| 10 | Delay things for a few days ? ’ |
| 11 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll give you some cortisone cream and I want you to wear cotton gloves for a few days , then come back and see me . |
| 13 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
| 14 | She would n't teach , her father had no useful city contacts , and thejob as librarian at Chatham House ( 5 guineas for a 51/2 day week ) proved to have prospects as poor as the pay . |
| 15 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 16 | The interest in local on-farm training was due no doubt to the difficulty that many found in getting away from their farms for a whole day . |
| 17 | If the food you have given is not completely eaten , or if the water becomes cloudy , stop feeding the shrimps for a few days . |
| 18 | Some idea of its business , ranging from the apparently trivial to the significant , can be seen in the contents of its registers for a single day , 21 December 1595 . |
| 19 | There are possible side effects such as nausea and headaches for a few days and extremely rarely there are other serious complications . |
| 20 | Miraculously , when invited for the Hunt Ball , he had asked if he might bring an old school friend who was staying with him , hiring horses for a few days ' hunting . |
| 21 | Sixty-three legionnaires had held off a Mexican force of 2,000 soldiers for a whole day , at the end of which five legionnaires had been left alive ; these five , thirsty , hungry and out of ammunition , had bayonet charged the Mexicans . |
| 22 | Local shopkeepers , community centres , libraries and other local venues should be asked to display prominently the posters for a few days preceding the consultation date/s . |
| 23 | If she missed his letters for a few days , she would probably stop taking him for granted . |
| 24 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
| 25 | Sterilised crypts continue to empty of functional cells for a few days , then crypts disappear and bare ulcerated areas develop . |
| 26 | The second is a slick operator , who studies his victim 's habits for a few days to establish a safe crime time . |
| 27 | 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 . |