Example sentences of "a day at the " in BNC.

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1 ‘ He would be better doing a day at the mill . ’
2 SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left .
3 ‘ If you have spent a day at the stadium , the one thing you do n't need is to spend an evening at the theatre .
4 There were production problems early on too , which cost as many as 500 cars a day at the Halewood plant .
5 That , gentle people , was hardly a day at the beach .
6 And the cost of a day at the ball park ?
7 Rachel Karafistan , now 18 , who co-founded the Bare Essentials Youth Theatre , will know soon whether she has won a day at the Olivier theatre , working with actors and directors including Anthony Hopkins , Ian McKellen and Richard Eyre , as part of the Lloyds Bank Theatre Challenge .
8 Good value also was a day at the private Plage de la Cannelle at St Maxime .
9 I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends .
10 Put in perspective , that was equivalent to the achievement of the whole of Fighter Command during a day at the height of the Battle of Britain , but with only a handful of men and stores involved .
11 The Sunday-school Treat was a day at the seaside , and the children were taken in the horse-drawn wagons .
12 Virgin hopes a day in the cockpit will become as popular as a day at the races for company gatherings .
13 Their current training programme means two nights a week in the gym , one night running six miles , two outings a day at the weekend in their single sculls , a 6.30am outing once a week as part of a national squad eight then two more sculling outings have to be fitted in during the weekdays .
14 It would seem more useful to reserve that much over-used tag of ‘ middle-class ’ for those higher up the social and financial scale than Benjamin — those who lived in larger houses with servants , who sent their children to public schools and could afford a day at the races or a night at the opera , suitably dressed .
15 A day at The Sanctuary in London costs £35 and this includes full use of facilities such as pools , sauna , steam room and jacuzzi plus a 20 minute solarium session .
16 Ask her too for a free half-price voucher which will give you a day at the gym at The Sanctuary in Covent Garden , London for only £5 .
17 IT 'S BEEN a hell of a day at the office … so what better way to end it than hanging around upside down and 200ft up .
18 PRINCESS Diana picked up some unusual souvenirs on a day at the seaside … two pairs of kippers .
19 Twenty years ago the city 's population never thought of spending a day at the beach .
20 The organisers are also working to attract attendees from other related events , such as the Esprit conference in nearby Brussels , to spend a day at the conference .
21 Having recently spent a day at the Whitechapel Open I would strongly urge that some consideration for selection should be introduced .
22 A day at the greatest flower show on earth , starts with a short journey by rail from The Hague to Zoetermeer ( included on your holiday ) .
23 The agreement purported to grant a term of uncertain duration which , if valid , now entitles the tenant to stay there for ever and a day at the 1930 rent of £30 ; valuers acting for both parties have agreed that the annual current commercial rent exceeds £10,000 .
24 With frequent daring declarations , two-day victories were not great rarities — Warwickshire were beaten in a day at The oval in 1953 — and in 1955 , to Surridge 's particular pride , all 28 matches were decided , 23 in Surrey 's favour .
25 He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before .
26 A day at the studio — or having a photographer come to your home — is fun too , and the pictures show it !
27 It all happened in Salisbury ; and then we travelled with overseas people for meetings in other centres like Bulawayo , Gwelo , Wankie — with a day at the Victoria Falls .
28 A list of the kadis in office in Anadolu in early Muharram 928/early December 1521 , forty years after the death of Mehmed II , shows the kadi of Bursa to be receiving 300 akce , while according to Gokbilgin , the kadi of Edirne was likewise receiving an allowance of only 300 akce a day at the beginning of the tenth/sixteenth century .
29 He then became kadi of Amasya , then defterdar , then kadi of Damascus in 927–8/1521 , after which " posts diverse of rank " , as Mecdi writes , he returned to teaching , according to Taskopruzade at the Sultan Murad Khan medrese in Bursa , according to Mecdi at the Yildirimhan ( Bayezid I ) medrese in Bursa , and then , according to both , with 70 akce a day at the Sahn , from which he was subsequently removed , dying in retirement with a pension of 80 akce .
30 So Barry greased a few palms and set up a day at the Foss Island Waterpark in Brandsburton , North Yorkshire .
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