Example sentences of "rather than [art] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | But sportsmen must retire ; their bones insist upon it , and most try to do so if not at the height of their powers — that is too much to ask , no matter how determined the vows of youth — at any rate a day before they are asked to go rather than a day after . |
| 2 | She eats , sleeps , and takes exercise when she pleases ; her timetable may be geared to the night rather than the day . |
| 3 | This would suggest that the dies , rather than the day or the finished vessels , had been transported up to 160 km . |
| 4 | Sometimes bad things hung on so it was possible to remember an outing as the day the car broke down rather than the day there was a barbecue on the beach and the party went on until the tide came in . |
| 5 | Conversely , if the rent is payable quarterly in arrear the term will be taken to begin at the first moment of 26 March , so that the last payment of rent will fall due on the last day of the term rather than the day after its expiry by effluxion of time . |