Example sentences of "a [adj] day [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TAKE a pleasant day trip on a glass-bottomed boat to Isla de los Lobos , about a mile-and-a-half off the coast from Corralejo . |
| 2 | And yet , any medium-sized town in the southern half of England has its Burleigh school : a private day school to which , for a not too exorbitant fee , parents can send their children and boast that they are privately educated . |
| 3 | What does upset Northampton is the impending change of rule — a 180 day qualification for overseas players from Sept 1 — which effectively will prevent Shelford from playing for them next season . |
| 4 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
| 5 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 6 | About a week before Michael was due to go back into hospital , we managed a few days holiday in the Lake District . |
| 7 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 8 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 9 | wait a bit , and they said so , they looked at it and said we 'd have to take it back in a few days time for them to do , they could n't do it there and then . |
| 10 | Then they 'll now go into a maths lesson let's go into this , they 're gon na perhaps do that eight times , then they 're gon na get a breather , then a few days time after that the form teacher 's saying right , let's do it again and summarise it , I think it 's too much ! |
| 11 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
| 12 | After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York . |
| 13 | Okay , do n't forget to have a few days break over Christmas , do n't work all the time , have a jolly good time . |
| 14 | When you 're not out walking around this lovely area of the Borders try seeing it from the back of a horse — the Westertoun Riding Centre will take you out on anything from an hourly ride to a half day trek through the Lammermuir Hills . |
| 15 | The church attracted quite large congregations and the Sunday School not only offered pupils a full day trip to the sea during the summer but also splendid Christmas treats , thus somewhat upstaging the Anglicans who had a half day trip to the New Forest with an ordinary Christmas Tea . |
| 16 | A half day trip to Nowy Targ , famous for its huge outdoor market . |
| 17 | A half day excursion to the pretty island of Lindau on Lake Constance is most worthwhile . |
| 18 | Except for , perhaps , a half day excursion to Skegness which costs one and threepence and if you 'd missed the train they had another one ready for you , not like British Rail today , enterprising . |
| 19 | THE Gambia 's national youth football team is on a 12 day tour of the UK . |
| 20 | She 's back home tonight after a 12 day visit to San Quentin . |
| 21 | As a special bonus , all of our special autumn holidays will include a free day trip to the internationally famous Munich Beer Festival . |
| 22 | In addition the Elfreda Rathbone organisation , a voluntary organisation helping people with learning disabilities , ran a free day nursery in the borough for a small number of children with learning difficulties . |
| 23 | The official said : ‘ He is taking a 10 day holiday with his family in Italy . |
| 24 | So Suzanne went home with a 10 day course of penicillin to take . |
| 25 | He had a 10 day history of diarrhoea ( 10 bowel actions daily ) without blood . |
| 26 | Previously the longest period without a lost day accident at the site , where paint manufacturer started in 1990 , had been 372 days , achieved in 1989 . |
| 27 | Thank you Chairman , erm , I 'm not sure Chair , whether there are members still on this Committee who will recall the er , previous erm , proposal for a multi-purpose day centre in Bridgenorth . |
| 28 | Jim Weir , Arthur Breen and Ann Dickson also attended Kidderminster College for a six day course on ‘ Training for Productivity and The Contribution of the Supervisor . ’ |
| 29 | After a three day trek across the desert , the group reached ground zero , the point directly above the buried bomb , stopping the countdown with only seven minutes to go . |
| 30 | With an expected life of three years for the lithium battery , there should n't be any problems with this unit , but Oceanic UK guarantee a three day turnround on battery changes , and service like this is good to hear about . |