Example sentences of "a single day " in BNC.
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| 31 | Among the assaults on males , it was only the two acquittal cases where the media coverage lasted more than a single day . |
| 32 | IBM UK Ltd expects to have shed a further 2,000 jobs by July after accelerating its cost-cutting programme : it had planned to shed 1,200 this year , but to avoid further ‘ bit by bit ’ cutbacks the company decided to bring forward further redundancy programmes and two weeks ago , 1,400 staff left on a single day and the company will be down to 12,000 by mid-year . |
| 33 | DEC says the announcement will feature ‘ more systems than the company has ever announced in a single day . ’ |
| 34 | On August 9 , 1892 , Lancashire defeated Somerset by eight wickets in a single day 's play |
| 35 | Susan Mayor , head of Christie 's Costume and Textiles department commented : ‘ Costume of this date is rare but seventeenth-century royal costume is surprisingly rare , and this piece can be dated exactly to a single day , 21 November 1673 when the history of England hung in balance . |
| 36 | Stuart Cameron made a single day ascent of Energy Vampire ( F8+ ) , flashing the English 7a ( ? ) crux move . |
| 37 | In contemporary Britain it seems almost impossible to go a single day without hearing , from some quarter or another , a senior policeman hectoring us on the deteriorated condition of public morals , while assuming the right to deliver homespun history lessons in which the past is lovingly remembered as a time of harmony . |
| 38 | The newspapers were particularly impressed by the appearance in Marylebone court of 88 people in a single day , 70 of whom were charged with disorderliness of some sort , although The Times ( 16 August 1898 ) observed that ‘ the majority of cases were of a very ordinary kind ’ . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | With stupefaction one thinks of the wholesale slaughter of ducks and chickens , of pheasant and quail , the shiploads of Dover sole and the immense cargoes of foie gras from France , of caviare from Russia , the crates of champagne and the tons of truffles , which went to make up a single day 's entertainment in the great hotels of Europe . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day . |
| 43 | I can not remember his taking a single day in bed . |
| 44 | One in which , on a single day , he could have been rounded up at bayonet-point or celebrated a cigarette . |
| 45 | It is customary to assemble the final roof in a single day . |
| 46 | " The Shipping Federation proved utterly incapable of helping its clients , and having dictated conditions for over twenty years , in a single day lost all its power " . |
| 47 | Only in the case of engagements lasting for a single day or less , and involving people with whom the organisation does not expect to have further contact in the near future , might payment be made without any deductions . |
| 48 | Not a single day or night had passed without him making life as difficult and miserable as was possible . |
| 49 | He wanted to tell her he had never stopped loving her , that never a single day had passed without him thinking of her , wanting her in his arms or by his side , sharing the success which life had bestowed on him . |
| 50 | We 've never , no , not for a single day , |
| 51 | But you will probably need to spend more than a single day in Winterthur . |
| 52 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 53 | ‘ My old friend , my youth , ’ he wrote to her afterwards , ‘ during the long years I have lived without knowing your whereabouts , there was perhaps not a single day when I did not think of you . ’ |
| 54 | A windsurfing week costs £240 and a single day 's activities costs £16 . |
| 55 | He refused to take a holiday of even a single day during the German air attack on London in 1916–17 , wishing to be present should any emergency arise . |
| 56 | Notwithstanding that , ready-mixed concrete does have the great advantage of being consistently mixed , can have a waterproofing compound added to it before you get it , and saves the mixing time ( which can mean the difference between the pool being completed in a single day and taking two or three ) . |
| 57 | At the end of July the Great Eastern Railways conveyed 500 tons of green peas on a single day from the area around Maldon in Essex . |
| 58 | Nietzsche wrote : " When I heard of the fires in Paris , I felt annihilated for some days and was overwhelmed by fears and doubts ; the whole academic ( wissenschaftlich ) , philosophical , artistic world seemed an absurdity , if a single day could wipe out the most glorious works of art , even whole periods of art ; I clung with earnest conviction to the metaphysical value of art , which can not exist for the sake of poor human beings , but has higher missions to fulfil . " |
| 59 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 60 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |