Example sentences of "a single day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A single day is not long enough to illustrate fully the roles played , or the variety of jobs undertaken by the UK Infantry Battalion of the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force ( Land ) — AMF(L) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 4 | But the occasional $500m-worth of speculative trading on the Korean Stock Exchange on a single day — as happened on January 17th — and a booming kerb market make it clear that a great deal of loose cash is still swirling around . |
| 5 | The price of gold plunged 7% in a single day immediately after the Gulf war broke out — evidently on hopes that the war would be brief . |
| 6 | As is well known , the boycott was less than a resounding success in terms of popular reactions , and , as an organized nation-wide affair , was called off after only a single day . |
| 7 | The extended histories of Victorian fiction are replaced in Ulysses ( 1922 ) and Mrs Dalloway ( 1925 ) by concentration within a single day of consciousness : random memories incorporate the past , rarely chronologically . |
| 8 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 9 | In a single day , without leaving the ridge , a fit walker can pick off seven Munros and stagger back home to an orgy of peak-ticking at the back of the Munro book . |
| 10 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 11 | More than 24,000 birds have been counted at Strathbeg during the course of a single day , and many more visit the reserve throughout the year . |
| 12 | Stafford , who sometimes spent £16,000 in a single day on antiques at Christie 's sales in London , was never troubled by his conscience . |
| 13 | Recently , three ferox weighing over 20lb were taken in a single day . |
| 14 | Mr. Cleaver also omits to mention any of the many infiltrations , bombardments and acts of terror towards a country which has not known a single day of peace in 44 years . |
| 15 | A force of 4000 men , landing on either side of the Cowes river and marching on Newport should , he estimated , be sufficient to secure the Isle of Wight in a single day . |
| 16 | as if one superlative were not enough for a single day , just across the way from Bill 's place I found a stall serving some unusual flavours of ice-cream . |
| 17 | On 26 February six of the bombers were destroyed and seven badly damaged in a single day . |
| 18 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 19 | In a single day , 29 September , the recession claimed over 4,500 jobs . |
| 20 | Six supermodels feature in the new spring/summer Littlewoods home shopping catalogue , and though they all charge up to £10,000 for a single day 's work the clothes they model for Littlewoods are all within easy reach of every woman . |
| 21 | It was found that a glass surface … is able to absorb a detectable amount of helium … from the atmosphere ( my italics ) during only a single day 's contact with the air . ’ |
| 22 | A SINGLE DAY ALTERNATIVE TO DAYS 1 & 2 |
| 23 | These include tigers and other dangerous creatures that may or may not have material form at any given time , ghosts , as well as ‘ spirits ’ — the waterfall mara ’ that causes tuberculosis ; the tree mara ’ that kills a person 's ‘ soul ’ by breaking its neck , bringing sickness and death in a single day ; the hilltop mara ’ that twists and shrivels limbs , and so on . |
| 24 | It is impossible to judge on the basis of a single day , however , and you should be looking for a consistent improvement over a period of time . |
| 25 | In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day . |
| 26 | Further evidence of the effectiveness of 1 Squadron 's operations was a single day in February 1956 when seven of the eight Lincolns carried out two bombing sorties , dropping 196,000lbs of bombs in the 24 hour period . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ALTHOUGH the world 's largest sporting event to take place on a single day is called the Indianapolis 500 , the track is actually in Speedway , Indiana , a smokestack-America suburb of small frame houses , storefronts and industrial plants . |
| 29 | Lured by stories of pickers making up to $1,000 in a single day , unemployed loggers , SouthEast Asian immigrants and garden-variety opportunists have all rushed in . |
| 30 | Investment firms solicit bids for a new issue at indicative prices and then , when their book is complete , price and sell the issue in a single day . |