Example sentences of "in [art] single day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Catches of as many as 4000 dolphins in a single drive have been reported from the last century , and the record number of animals killed in a single day during the 1970s was 2838 . |
| 2 | The price of gold plunged 7% in a single day immediately after the Gulf war broke out — evidently on hopes that the war would be brief . |
| 3 | Not only that , but one imagines such huts to be found in the very heart of the wilderness , where one can not ascend a peak and walk out in a single day , and must take shelter for the night . |
| 4 | In a single day , without leaving the ridge , a fit walker can pick off seven Munros and stagger back home to an orgy of peak-ticking at the back of the Munro book . |
| 5 | The horseshoe ridge that Ben Lawers dominates can be knocked off in a single day if you have legs of iron , but for a more leisurely exploration of the hills , Glen Lyon is where to pick off Meall a' Choire Leith , Meall Garbh , and the more distant Meall Greigh that turns the horseshoe into an S-shape . |
| 6 | Stafford , who sometimes spent £16,000 in a single day on antiques at Christie 's sales in London , was never troubled by his conscience . |
| 7 | Recently , three ferox weighing over 20lb were taken in a single day . |
| 8 | A force of 4000 men , landing on either side of the Cowes river and marching on Newport should , he estimated , be sufficient to secure the Isle of Wight in a single day . |
| 9 | On 26 February six of the bombers were destroyed and seven badly damaged in a single day . |
| 10 | A fast stage-coach could now cover over a hundred miles in a single day , good roads and weather permitting , though comfort was not necessarily to be looked for and there was an outside chance of ending up with a foul-mouthed and drunken coachman for the length of the journey . |
| 11 | In a single day , 29 September , the recession claimed over 4,500 jobs . |
| 12 | These include tigers and other dangerous creatures that may or may not have material form at any given time , ghosts , as well as ‘ spirits ’ — the waterfall mara ’ that causes tuberculosis ; the tree mara ’ that kills a person 's ‘ soul ’ by breaking its neck , bringing sickness and death in a single day ; the hilltop mara ’ that twists and shrivels limbs , and so on . |
| 13 | In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day . |
| 14 | Lured by stories of pickers making up to $1,000 in a single day , unemployed loggers , SouthEast Asian immigrants and garden-variety opportunists have all rushed in . |
| 15 | Investment firms solicit bids for a new issue at indicative prices and then , when their book is complete , price and sell the issue in a single day . |
| 16 | DEC says the announcement will feature ‘ more systems than the company has ever announced in a single day . ’ |
| 17 | On August 9 , 1892 , Lancashire defeated Somerset by eight wickets in a single day 's play |
| 18 | The newspapers were particularly impressed by the appearance in Marylebone court of 88 people in a single day , 70 of whom were charged with disorderliness of some sort , although The Times ( 16 August 1898 ) observed that ‘ the majority of cases were of a very ordinary kind ’ . |
| 19 | A pair of swifts with a family to feed may catch twenty thousand insects in a single day . |
| 20 | It is customary to assemble the final roof in a single day . |
| 21 | " The Shipping Federation proved utterly incapable of helping its clients , and having dictated conditions for over twenty years , in a single day lost all its power " . |
| 22 | Children came to laugh at the animals as they rocked autistically or broke into tantrums ; creatures accustomed to marking out miles of territory in a single day were now constrained to prowl and circle in a few narrow yards . |
| 23 | Notwithstanding that , ready-mixed concrete does have the great advantage of being consistently mixed , can have a waterproofing compound added to it before you get it , and saves the mixing time ( which can mean the difference between the pool being completed in a single day and taking two or three ) . |
| 24 | If they did , the rate of reproduction of bacteria is such that 10 million copies of the New Testament could be run off in a single day , a missionary 's dream if only people could read the DNA alphabet but , alas , the characters are so small that all 10 million copies of the New Testament could simultaneously dance upon the surface of a pin 's head . |
| 25 | Brian Barnes , the man who beat Jack Nicklaus twice in a single day , could introduce a new-look to the Senior 's Tour in Britain . |
| 26 | Central bank intervention on Nov. 20 to devalue the cruzeiro saw its value falling by 7 per cent against the US dollar in a single day . |
| 27 | And you screw it all up in a single day . |
| 28 | So much paper passing to and fro in a single day , thought the tall boy . |
| 29 | Many of the fish species migrate from one river system to another : they can travel 20–30 km upstream in a single day and seeds can remain in their guts for 1 7 days . |
| 30 | Later in June , more than 1,000 people in Athens sought hospital treatment for heart and respiratory problems in a single day because of air pollution and high temperatures . |