Example sentences of "a day and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the diners eat the same feast which takes Khai Eng and Rex a day and a half to prepare . |
| 2 | A big man , six foot four inches in his socks and a good fourteen stone , he always looked mildly untidy , and this morning , having worn the same clothes for a day and a half he looked like a football supporter after a night in the cells . |
| 3 | It was not until Friday morning , after a day and a half had elapsed , that the real fault was diagnosed . |
| 4 | Bonington set off alone for civilisation , reaching a village after descending the dangerous icefalls and cutting his way through the jungle for a day and a half . |
| 5 | It took us a day and a half to come , riding fast . |
| 6 | They were humiliated with a day and a half to spare by an innings and 182 runs — just 18 runs less than their record loss against Yorkshire in 1938 . |
| 7 | By such primitive methods , the volume of gas necessary to carry one or two people aloft , could take up to a day and a half to produce . |
| 8 | It took about a day and a half for each of them , during which time my nerve-ends were pinging like a Du-gnorian soniharp . |
| 9 | ‘ About a day and a half . ’ |
| 10 | The conference programme comprised a half-day of presentations , a day and a half of workshop sessions , and a further day to map out and agree 1993 HSE strategy . |
| 11 | Er would the leader of the house then express his concern that at the end of the March when the tory party conference comes to Plymouth , there 's a hundred and thirty five children are going to miss a day and a half of their schooling because of that conference . |
| 12 | One day it took us a day and a half to get it back again . |
| 13 | Yes , two day a day and a half or something , two days ? |
| 14 | But they took her away instead and she was in gaol for a day and a night ; they released her because the State of Emergency ( 1960 ) which allowed the government to detain political prisoners without charge , had not yet been legally declared . |
| 15 | ‘ Last Tuesday Nellie , my wife , had to go to hospital and they kept her in for a day and a night for eye tests . |
| 16 | In a day and a night of violence and imposture William Bentley , working for his uncle , the captain of the frigate Welfare , also succeeds in capturing Jesse Broad , a smuggler returning with a cargo from a French ship . |
| 17 | For a day and a night the feasting on the horse filled everyone in the enclave with a dreadful exultation , but gradually it died down as the garrison came to realize that one horse was hardly enough to stay their hunger for more than a few hours . |
| 18 | Then he and Rabscuttle went secretly down one of their few holes where there was no water , put a sentry outside and thought and talked for a day and a night . |
| 19 | Meanwhile Bathsheba had spent a day and a night as a willing prisoner in a small bedroom in her house . |
| 20 | Turakina had known from the first how he would react , but she had pretended resistance for a day and a night before giving her consent . |
| 21 | Who lay a night and a day and a night and a day |
| 22 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 23 | At very much the same hour Edmund Mortimer came out of the deep sleep that follows fever , and opened his eyes reluctantly , remembering instantly and ruefully a day and a night of indignity and discomfort before he had lost all sense of place , time and direction , and finally of his own identity . |
| 24 | The rapid recording or repetition of the circumstances of longitudinal experiments in science meant that in a day and a night , without any intervention from a pupil or a teacher , the replication of two terms ' work could be completed . |
| 25 | ON Monday November 2 in a foxhunting feature , a hunt supporter incorrectly stated the League Against Cruel Sports gives £35 a day and a lunch to hunt saboteurs . |
| 26 | Ramsey was one of four masons on a commission to survey the Tower of London in 1335 , and on 1 June 1336 he received a patent as chief mason at the Tower and chief surveyor of the king 's works south of Trent for life , at one shilling a day and a robe every year . |
| 27 | Or nearly nothing : where before you could book for lunch by telephone in a minute or two , this time it took half a dozen tries spread over a day and a bit , and I finally had to strike higher up . |
| 28 | To shed surplus weight with the F-Plan , allow yourself a maximum of 1,500 calories a day and a minimum of 1,000 calories ( or less only if medically supervised ) a day . |
| 29 | Er er there was just the one meal a day and a piece of bread and that was your lot . |
| 30 | After adjustment for these sexual risk factors we found that the dose-response relation between the number of cigarettes smoked a day and the presence of oncogenic human papillomavirus was still significant ( χ 2 =10.90 , df=1 , p<0.001 ) . |