Example sentences of "of [adj] [art] day " in BNC.

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1 But she was the first in recent memory — for Gentle the past had a way of evaporating after about ten years — who had conspired to remove everything from him in the space of half a day .
2 The introduction of a trading lag of half a day reduced , but did not eliminate , these arbitrage profits .
3 There are also some local variations in the measurements and because of this reliable detection of growth over a period of half a day seems unlikely .
4 1 seminar of half a day or 1 day
5 On Jan. 31 the office of UN High Commissioner for Refugees reported that Somali refugees were arriving in Kenya at the rate of 700 a day bringing the total there already to 140,000 .
6 Earlier this month , people were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from hunger and the effects of Serb shelling .
7 At one point earlier this month townspeople were reported to be dying at the rate of 30 a day from shellfire and starvation .
8 Typical summer weather marred and eventually curtailed the outdoor events , but in spite of this the day was a great success , with more than 800 attending .
9 Her abdomen is swollen into a white heaving sausage , I 2 centimetres long , from which she produces eggs at the almost unbelievable rate of 30,000 a day .
10 ‘ The most terribly overlooked architect of the twentieth century ’ , according to Sherri Geldin of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles , Louis Kahn 's work drew crowds of 1,200 a day in Paris and the exhibition received rave reviews when it opened .
11 We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day .
12 We will be paying you a fee of 100 a day for work on the production and one day 's preparation i.e. a total of 1200 .
13 On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity .
14 She says it 's great that children from special schools have the chance of such a day out .
15 Aye , just one of these a day .
16 How many of these a day would you have ?
17 Only two wickets fell yesterday , slightly below the game 's average of three a day .
18 Working from early morning to late in the evening , construction crews from the Grahams/ Farrans joint venture team are slotting together 90 tonnes concrete sections at the rate of three a day .
19 New figures out today from the British Chambers of Commerce show that businesses are collapsing at the rate of 76 a day .
20 What importance is the colour of his attire when at the end of many a day the master and his bullying gang 's regalia will all doubtless be red with the blood of the helpless abused fox .
21 She sounds like she 's smoking sort of sixty a day .
22 The bombshell came as official figures showed that Britain 's jobless total rose 47,000 to 2,807,000 last month — with workers joining the dole queue at the rate of 1,500 every day .
23 By the end of the month the French , United Kingdom and United States governments had committed troops to maintain " safe havens " within Iraq , despite the latter 's condemnation , and UN relief agencies confirmed on April 29 that Kurdish refugees who had fled Iraq were returning home at the rate of 20,000 a day .
24 But in the main we are looking for er somewhere in the region of er hundred and eighty pounds per per per deal and we 're looking for one of those a day average .
25 I ate three a day three of those a day
26 That was because there were over four million men being demobbed at the rate of 10,000 a day .
27 The UNHCR was already operating eight camps in Kenya but said that more were needed as refugees were arriving in Kenya at the rate of 2,800 a day .
28 Individuals becoming insolvent also jumped 9pc to 9,470 in the third quarter a rate of 103 a day .
29 Individuals becoming insolvent also jumped 9% to 9,470 in the third quarter a rate of 103 a day .
30 Koirala told parliament on March 9 that more than 20,000 Bhutanese refugees had arrived in Nepal since July 1991 and more were arriving at the rate of 200 a day .
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