Example sentences of "in a day ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main events are at 12.25 ( women ) and 1.30 ( men ) in a day 's programme comprising 12 races , the first of which is at 11.05 . |
| 2 | All in a day 's work : since Aesculapius , doctors have enjoyed complaining . |
| 3 | Most pickers earn the equivalent to the government minimum daily wage in a day 's work , but they do not get any of the benefits of social security payments , minimal though they are , that employed workers receive nor the security of a regular wage . |
| 4 | There is also a short section on the area around Milan , or , at least , those pads of it that can be comfortably reached in a day 's road or rail travel . |
| 5 | For instance , you may think that running a household and looking after your children is all in a day 's work ; however , the planning skills needed to do this could be a very useful quality to have in some jobs . |
| 6 | You deal with difficult foreign authorities , desperate stranded tourists , all manner of accident and disaster , reams of paper work , issue passports , invade foreign gaols with help and succour for Brits behind bars , all in a day 's work . |
| 7 | This is real wilderness — we met no-one else in a day 's walking . |
| 8 | ‘ All in a day 's work , Bessie me love , ’ he said . |
| 9 | But there is little point , for instance , in turning on an artistic , enlightened medieval king because he also enjoyed slaughtering hundreds of deer in a day 's hunt and daubing the fresh blood on his own face and those of his friends . |
| 10 | But it 's all in a day 's work for the manmountain … well , in a day 's lounging around , actually . |
| 11 | But it 's all in a day 's work for the manmountain … well , in a day 's lounging around , actually . |
| 12 | In a day 's outing on the 30 degrees overhanging climbs at Volx , Provence , he will top-rope several 7c routes , downclimbing them as well . |
| 13 | All in a day 's work for the hundreds of people involved in the various stages — but there is perhaps only one who will have witnessed everything that has happened . |
| 14 | All in a day 's work |
| 15 | I expect it 's all in a day 's work to an adventurous lot like you . " |
| 16 | ‘ All in a day 's work . ’ |
| 17 | You sound as if it 's all in a day 's work . |
| 18 | ‘ Oh , all in a day 's work , but I must add that after that little fiasco I decided to join a more conventional hotel group and enjoyed the civilized calm of the Savoy for a while . |
| 19 | It was common for the army to travel two hundred verst in a day 's march and , with frequent changes , it seemed that the animals could be driven twice as hard . |
| 20 | Tod also played it cool : all in a day 's work . |
| 21 | ‘ Fenella can follow you in a day 's time . ’ |
| 22 | All in a day 's hell . |
| 23 | A row was all in a day 's work for her , and at the end she 'd feel pleased with herself and at peace with the world . |
| 24 | This was partly because he was not exceptionally bright while being at the same time exceptionally unimaginative , but it was also because odd carvings and perilous tunnels were all in a day 's work . |
| 25 | She had unflinchingly wrenched the arrow out of his arm as if ‘ t was all in a day 's work , and had argued with him all through the operation and while bandaging his wound later . |
| 26 | The normal price for any given daily supply of fish , which we are now seeking , is the price which will quickly call into the fishing trade capital and labour enough to obtain that supply in a day 's fishing of average good fortune ; the influence which the price of fish will have upon capital and labour available in the fishing trade being governed by rather narrow causes such as these . |
| 27 | For Crawford , it was all in a day 's work , and split-second timing was the key . |
| 28 | Ah well , all in a day 's work I suppose . ’ |
| 29 | Organising training , administration , health and safety and quality is all in a day 's work for the division 's Training and Administration Manager Frank Hesketh . |
| 30 | All in a day 's work . |