Example sentences of "part of [art] day " in BNC.
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1 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
2 | Walkers in a hurry can sneak across on a passenger ferry and over the facing hill on a cart track to Dundonnell , saving nearly twenty miles and the best part of a day . |
3 | Two thousand points is the usual size for battles that will last an entire evening , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
4 | Two thousand points is the usual size for a good evening 's battle , and three thousand points will give you enough troops for a battle that will take the best part of a day to fight . |
5 | Since it can take the best part of a day to book an international phone call , some foreign businessmen bring their own alternative — the Magnavox Magnaphone . |
6 | Hours spent on each site during the day or part of a day if working on more than one site . |
7 | They may be attached to a particular school for a single day or even part of a day , or for a substantially longer period . |
8 | Incidentally it did not escape our notice that Colin , his wife and John Stowell all gave up a significant part of a day for our benefit . |
9 | It comes about that the merchant has to go to the fair at Bruges on his business , and while he spends part of a day before departure in his counting-house reviewing his affairs the monk meets and converses with the wife . |
10 | Shopworkers who spent the best part of a day locked out of work are sympathetic with the police , but angry with the terrorists . |
11 | Knight Ride , the only monorail themed ride in Ireland , is a great place to bring family or friends as part of a day out in Carrickfergus . |
12 | The Coach Drivers Club felt that £5 per day or part of a day for a coach was unreasonable for coaches only visiting the town for up to two hours . |
13 | So that a large part of every day is not determined by thought at all , it more or less just happens because of habit . |
14 | My two main subjects were English and music , so I was spending a large part of every day doing the things I loved most . |
15 | All species of cats , whether they be lions , leopards or domestic cats , spend a large part of every day asleep . |
16 | Pick fruit just ripe , harvesting preferably in the coolest part of the day . |
17 | They had to hassle for the best part of the day to get the machine out of the factory because , like most of these auctions , the auctioneers wanted the place cleared immediately . |
18 | During the early part of the day in Prague , East Germans waited quietly , apparently believing that the crowd outside the embassy was in fact a queue . |
19 | Much of the capital 's road space is used for only part of the day . |
20 | The border from West into East Berlin was closed for part of the day . |
21 | The easiest part of the day was parking the car by the Fish pub in Buttermere . |
22 | The plastic mind of the bank-clerk had been overlaid , coloured , and distorted by that which he had read , and the result as delivered was a confused tangle of other voices most like the mutter and hum through a City telephone in the busiest part of the day . |
23 | • Try to arrange for your activities to be concentrated in the first part of the day and for relaxation to come later . |
24 | For severe exercise , the best part of the day is late afternoon , because the body is most efficient then and you will be able to push yourself harder . |
25 | After a flight to the west , meetings should take place in the morning by new local time rather than in the latter part of the day . |
26 | Now it is an essential part of the day and young recruits quickly learn that a good breakfast is vital if they are to survive another demanding day . |
27 | Late risers always exasperate early risers like myself , who hate to miss what they know is the best part of the day . |
28 | The animal did not even trouble to look up as Mungo passed ; probably feeling , as he did , that this part of the day was best enjoyed alone . |
29 | They do n't mind being shaded for part of the day . |
30 | In this study four aspects of timing were looked at : length of course — 3 hours , 6 hours , or 12 hours ; time of year ; part of the day for 3 hour courses ; and part of the day for 6 hour courses . |