Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [adv] [art] day " in BNC.

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1 Earlier in the season so many wasps ( or guêpes , as they call them ) were being caught that the gardener was having to empty the traps twice a day .
2 Ironically the couple had been discussing putting smoke detectors in all the rooms just the day before the fire happened .
3 Luckily the real health worker had examined the babies only the day before , and Karen , who was already suspicious , asked for identification .
4 He was prepared to run a conveyance to the links twice a day at 6d. a head or 1s. 0d. for a single passenger .
5 I visit the horses twice a day , taking titbits to encourage them to trot to me so I can make sure they are sound !
6 My plea was wholly contained in the events barely a day old and swiftly took the Bench and the entire Court through the squirt of 174 cannon shells , the wounded , the flight engineer 's heroic effort in repairing the devastated controls twice , his treatment of the wounded and his immediate award of a DFM , which he had been celebrating .
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