Example sentences of "more than [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 2 | 6 October , 1835 FELIX MENDELSSOHN writes to his family from Leipzig : ‘ The day after I accompanied the Hensels to Delitzsch , Chopin arrived here ; he would not stay more than a day , and so we spent it together entirely , and played music . |
| 3 | Winners of the Treble Chance swooned at the sight of the cheque and were generally paraded to the Press and public as examples of how , at any minute , any humble citizen who had never had more than a day out at Blackpool could strike gold . |
| 4 | There could be a need to check forensic evidence , for example , or to prevent a suspect absconding , or to travel to a far-away police station where the investigation was being conducted , and any of these could take more than a day . |
| 5 | As a rough guide , if a fever persists more than a day or two in a child under 2 years then consider seeking advice . |
| 6 | Severe sore throats persisting more than a day or two in a young child without signs of improvement . |
| 7 | Other remedies will be needed if Aconite does not suffice and the condition lingers or continues on for more than a day or so . |
| 8 | All records were of single birds which rarely stayed for more than a day . |
| 9 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 10 | Nigel had been very healthy all his life and , apart from a slipped disc and the odd bout of ‘ flu , had never been incapacitated for more than a day or so . |
| 11 | Nearly three months have passed … by now a relieving force may be no more than a day 's march away , and yet you 're prepared to mortgage away your future lives as if they did not exist ! |
| 12 | But his wife was always his chief protector — he did not like her to leave his side for more than a day . |
| 13 | To begin with it is best to keep the adults for no more than a day , then let them free . |
| 14 | Trainee dealers put on debt collecting for more than a day or two at a stretch would often walk out of Harvard from sheer boredom and frustration . |
| 15 | Any worker away from the nest for more than a day will find that its smell identification badge has expired , and it will be killed . |
| 16 | But now when Miss Fairgrieves must write about me , what Papa calls a ‘ moral report ’ , whenever he is away from home for more than a day , then it is always full of : ‘ Alice has been as usual rather headstrong , argumentative , even secretive … ’ |
| 17 | The World Health Organisation recommends that all polio vaccines that are exposed to temperatures over 10°C for more than a day ( five days for measles vaccines ) should be used within three months . |
| 18 | Once she was there it would require a tremendous effort of will to get her back to London — except that she could not leave Holly in charge for more than a day ; and except that she was avid for information about the murder inquiry ; and except that there were any number of good stories she wanted to pursue for the column and any amount of private gossip she wanted to hear . |
| 19 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 20 | Now , though he was seventy , he was still robust and active , and there was nothing he enjoyed more than a day 's shooting . |
| 21 | This is a scandal not merely because police stations are not equipped to hold prisoners for more than a day or two — everyone from Lord Justice Woolf to the Inspectorate Constabulary has condemned the present arrangement — but because police cells are now being used as a convenience to enable the Prison Department and the Home Secretary to claim that overcrowding in prisons is diminished . |
| 22 | There was no reason , of course , why a strong-bodied man like Rourke Deveraugh should be out of work for more than a day or so . |
| 23 | The fire had been dead for more than a day . |
| 24 | It cost my host , Andrei Nikitenko , one US dollar to park his Lada Riva with central locking and alarm a sum equivalent to 900 roubles or more than a day 's pay for the average Russian . |
| 25 | ‘ In places this size , you come away saying it would take more than a day to see them , ’ said Mr Craig . |
| 26 | But it emerged that it was unlikely the child was on her own for more than a day , as neighbours volunteered to look after her . |
| 27 | Well , I , I wan na go skiing as well , so you get more than a day trip . |