Example sentences of "for a [adj] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in bed for a straight seven days . |
| 2 | Just as we enter Machico , we pass the Hotel Dom Pedro on the right , a favourite retreat for a peaceful few days . |
| 3 | They came from all over Gloucestershire for a typical Victorian day out … a trip on a steamer to the seaside resort of Ilfracombe.Six hundred and fifty climbed aboard the Balmoral at Lydney dock … making the most of the chance of a lifetime.After all the last pleasure boat to attract the crowds down to Lydney dock for a trip to Devon was the paddle steamer Ravenswood in 1893 . |
| 4 | The ambience Iona Abbey aims to provide in terms of welcome and acceptance is one she hopes to recreate in her own home : ‘ When people live together , they share life-stories over the washing-up , ’ says the woman poised to play hostess to up to eight guests , for a possible five days every week . |
| 5 | Most of the action takes place in San Francisco where the two lucky winners of our great contest will be heading for a sensational seven days . |
| 6 | It 's mainly set in San Francisco , where the two winners of our great contest will be heading for a sensational seven days . |
| 7 | All you have to do is raise £140 in sponsorship to qualify for a free full day introductory course at one of the club 's sites around Bristol . |
| 8 | If I may broaden it away from erm the Cardinal Newman School and think probably of a lot of East Sussex Comprehensive Schools , I think we have all been , in the schools , in the last few years , working hard to establish this openness , and I think that the closed concept of the school , the school that locks children out at break or locks children out at dinner time , which only allows parents to come in for a phoney Open Day when there are a few children there , they are things largely , I think , of the past and they are the closed society . |
| 9 | Arrangements are also supplied for the church and reception , with presentation bouquets , corsages — everything you need for a wonderful floral day . |
| 10 | But this time only one had rested : the other had worked right through , for a full ten days . |