Example sentences of "[adv] in [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Give him three ounces of this immediately in a pint of water , then follow it with one and a half ounces night and morning and let us know if he is n't a lot better in two days . " |
| 2 | But she had dreamed of it endlessly in those days when she had adored him . |
| 3 | ‘ Women wore their hair very long in Victorian days , ’ |
| 4 | Especially in these days of violence . |
| 5 | Now we never know , especially in this day and age , what situation we 're going to be in , and would your physical ability save you ? |
| 6 | Abrams ' experience proved that being a solid but unspectacular TV performer is no longer enough in these days where a politician risks instant oblivion unless he can turn in the hustings equivalent of an MTV award winner . |
| 7 | No person could take in all the information available on TV alone in one day . |
| 8 | Our regiment had a very fine cellar , laid down in Victorian days , and it had to be abandoned . |
| 9 | We took it all down in one day , helped by Steve 's mothers ' little helpers . |
| 10 | They went down in one day , unloaded the two separate loads , got round to number seven Edgeware Road the next day . |
| 11 | And yet you know you think families 'd stick together in this day and age . |
| 12 | If they heard a knock at the door or if they heard shouting and bawling in the street , but there 's nothing they can do what we 're asking for here is and I 'm asking for support is a phone to the people who can not afford one whereas if they hear something they can phone the police , or they can phone the support unit because are two people staying together in this day and age where they can not walk in the streets they 're attacked even in broad daylight going to get their pensions never mind at night-time . |
| 13 | I had not in those days looked at the real aspects of the drink question — had not seen the responsibility that rests on each one to be guiltless in regard to that which is sapping our country of some of its brightest intellects , and killing numbers of her sons possessed of generous impulsive natures . |
| 14 | Not in those days , not for a good Catholic girl like Mary Moxton , who would only lapse so far , and abortion was a lot further . |
| 15 | I could not in those days , see God for his creature , of whom I had made an idol . |
| 16 | Not in these days , for smoking in , but just a casual yet elegant loose jacket with a tie belt made in straight pieces like a very simple dressing gown — a truly marvellous garment to relax in after a hard day 's work and very good for either men or women . |
| 17 | Experiments show that many tolerate a wide range of light conditions , but a few high polar species perform best in long day regimes , or refuse to flower in anything less than a 22–24-hour day . |
| 18 | The Greeks may have called the angle the sun moved through in one day 1° , which is unc of a full turn … |
| 19 | 12 Finished Wallow barrow & Hawes water so that the thirty plates were got through in 36 days or 5 weeks . |
| 20 | I mean there 's proof there cos five just in four days . |
| 21 | But they just in these days they just looked at them and said , Alright . |
| 22 | I 'd promise anything for a leg over in those days , he used to say , but I 've got more about me now . |
| 23 | Oh well we had no feelings about it because I really was n't an Old Harlow person , nor was my husband and all that we could think about it was that it would be very good for the area , it would erm , bring work and employment and everything like that , but of course Old Harlow people were very , you know , a lot of them were very against it and yet , in the end , the Harlow High Street shops was , made a fortune in those first few years , you know , when there was nothing else and the , the Old Harlow High Street was n't of course paved over in those days , anything like that and it , it was a narrow , narrow high street , it was almost like taking your life in your hands walking down there because there were crowds of people obviously with all this influx of community and they er the main Chelmsford road used to come up through there , so it was a , a hell , sort of a traffic hazard really . |
| 24 | Columbus 's voyage was over in thirty-five days ; but Magellan 's had been gone a year and weathered a subAntarctic winter before the real task began — the voyage over a trackless waste of waters exactly three times as long as the first crossing of the Atlantic … |
| 25 | It was more that it was genuinely in those days a club . |
| 26 | What was that like in those days ? |
| 27 | That would come off in two days , she told me , and be replaced by a spatula splint , and yes , she would be on duty on Sunday . |
| 28 | Overladen buses trundle about the city , and a taxi fleet pensioned off in colonial days still plies its trade like a permanent veteran car rally . |
| 29 | Along Downing Street ( which was not railed off in those days ) and on the thresholds of other public buildings , pickets from the four main Civil Service trade unions were noisily demonstrating their disdain for the authority of a Labour government that was already on the skids . |
| 30 | The possibility of anything like that happening to the Germans seemed a long way off in those days . |