Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] day of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To take the example of chalk , some of the most memorable days of my childhood were spent cycling in the North Downs in Surrey . |
| 2 | It 's been the most awful day of my life . |
| 3 | It 's everything I 've hoped for — the pinnacle and the most exciting day of my life . ’ |
| 4 | She had looked deep into his black eyes ; for six weeks she had enjoyed , in the brief times they had spent together , the happiest and most carefree days of her life , surreptitiously stolen , with the help of a willing friend , from her guarded life , the life of a rich heiress . |
| 5 | On the most inconvenient day of the whole year for me . |
| 6 | So many days of late , although dry , have been dull and overcast , but as someone said to me , you ca n't wait too long for a good thing , so here 's hoping . |
| 7 | One foreign ministry clerk in the early years of the twentieth century " soon decided that it was not worth the trouble to go to the office to sleep when I could sleep more comfortably in my own bed or pass my time in more interesting or more amusing tasks " , while an Italian ambassador is said to have spent only fifteen days of a year in residence in a post which he disliked . |
| 8 | For a start , the weather was atrocious when they most needed to acclimatize , and in their first seven weeks they had only seventeen days of cricket . |
| 9 | Sharpe 's problems began after only two days of pre-season training last July . |
| 10 | It was a long document ( as one speaker remarked , there was a danger it would grow so long that no one would read it ) , but after only two days of discussion the fathers voted overwhelmingly to accept the draft as the basis for the final document and went on to debate it section by section . |
| 11 | However , school children pay only about two-thirds of the adult fare and for only 200 days of the year , and for the remainder of the time adult passengers may not be numerous enough to cover operating costs . |
| 12 | Just for a short while let this be the most perfect day of my life . |
| 13 | Although the media coverage of Hadfields suggested a violent encounter between police and pickets , even on the most serious day of violence , 12 March when seventy-five arrests were made , the confrontation was relatively tame ( ibid.:90–1 ) . |
| 14 | These are the realities of the truly not easy days of our perestroika . ’ |
| 15 | The Marquess of Blandford has been freed from jail after serving just three days of a four-month sentence . |
| 16 | A key issues review should take approximately 1-3 days of a manager 's time and 1 day of a partner 's time depending on the size of the transaction . |
| 17 | LIFESPAN RDBI ( running on a MicroVax 2000 ) would take approximately 1 day of CPU time to bulk transfer a LIFESPAN 08.00 database of this size . |
| 18 | She had a good job working with an airline company until she became pregnant after missing just one day of taking the Pill . |
| 19 | But making a fuss of Mum should n't be restricted to just one day of the year ! |
| 20 | After just twelve days of the hearings it was dramatically announced that the first parts for Hinkley C had already been ordered . |
| 21 | Marrakech is worth not two days of a tourist 's time but at least seven . |
| 22 | I permit the incidents of the past to haunt me for just seven days of each year . |
| 23 | For Lady Diana Spencer , just twenty years old , it was the most thrilling day of her life . |
| 24 | Almost inevitably , though , there is a tinge of regret to accompany the most satisfactory days of his career on and off the field . |
| 25 | The nine other sites are ’ — we 'll just put because they 're not in , writing this thing — ’ and they will open from the first of May nineteen ninety-one between nine and six p.m. each day of the week . |
| 26 | This must have been the only totally calm day of our whole trip so we did n't get far , but it was very relaxing trailing fingers in the water and enjoying the sun ( NB water too cold to swim ! ) . |
| 27 | As a result , reforms like school boards and compulsory testing for primary school pupils — which would have been unlikely to survive unscathed in the more consensual days of previous Tory administrations — have been implemented and then decisively rejected by the public . |
| 28 | A Period of Incapacity for Work ( PIW ) is formed when there is a spell of 4 or more consecutive days of sickness . |
| 29 | Gone are the more dynamic days of the early 1960s when even substantial rates of net migration loss from the larger cities to other parts of Britain were largely or completely offset by relatively high rates of natural increase and by immigration from overseas . |
| 30 | NEONATAL MORTALITY RATE — measures the chance of death during the first month of life ; it is calculated as the number of deaths under 28 days of age ( or under one month ) during a specified time period per 1,000 live births that occurred in the same period . |