Example sentences of "[noun sg] only [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely no more appropriately-named horse could win with a General Election only five days away from the race itself . |
| 2 | PITCHED into the cricketing cauldron that is Sabinal Park only three days after their SAA jumbo jet touched down at Norman Manley International , their adrenalin expended in the World Cup and their concentration on the solitary Test , the South Africans were utterly outplayed in all three One-Day Internationals . |
| 3 | Party Politics now carries the colours of Mrs Patricia Thompson , who took delivery of the gift horse only two days before the National , a surprise from her husband , David , who owns Cheveley Park Stud , Newmarket . |
| 4 | Matlock , who won the Trophy in 1975 , lost 1-0 at home to Stalybridge Celtic , but Celtic 's centre half Micky Kilduff had signed for the club only six days before the game , instead of the seven laid down in the rules , so the match has been awarded to Matlock . |
| 5 | The CTD bond can be delivered on any business day of the delivery month , but in practice only two days are ever used . |
| 6 | Having just wed , and her husband laid off from the cotton mill only four days since , her wages were now the only ones coming in , and she lived in fear of being put out of work . |
| 7 | Moreover , this particular photograph had been brought to the lab only that day , and no one had ever coupled it with any sort of training . |
| 8 | At the Berlin conference only 10 days ago my German counterpart , the Minister of the Interior , was alarmed at the number of eastern Europeans and Russians who intend to move into Germany . |
| 9 | Although this took place only three days later , Brunel and Burn had in that time examined forty-four schemes and produced a nine-page report vindicating the efforts of Angell and Pownall . |
| 10 | Peter Bourne reveals that on 16 October 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos ( who disappeared in a still unexplained air accident only ten days later ) was interviewed at the Havana Riviera Hotel by Alexander Alekseev , a KGB official who quickly developed an excellent rapport with Castro and played an extremely important role in the development of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Sweden tried to take the first initiative only two days after the ending of the Maudling negotiations , inviting other states to send representatives to Stockholm to discuss how their trade policies might be better coordinated . |
| 12 | Mr Ciampi announced his team only two days after his appointment — a record in Italy . |
| 13 | She was very distressed and embarrassed by the March , 1992 , report which said that having agreed to attend a gala for the blind — with only her expenses to be paid — she had broken her word by demanding a fee only two days before the event . |
| 14 | But the owners of the Handyman Store at High Stakesby , Whitby , told the tribunal that Mr Heselton had broken company rules and that he had been warned about his behaviour only four days before the incident . |
| 15 | Well last night only three days after the shadow cabinet elections one of the women MPs who was thrown off John Smith 's core team accused her male parliamentary colleagues of a cynical plot and a stitch-up . |
| 16 | Work had resumed at the mine only two days before the disaster following a 15-day strike over pay and poor safety conditions . |
| 17 | Sixty fishermen turned out for the competition on Rutland Water , which had opened for the new season only four days earlier , after an initial stocking with 40,000 trout . |
| 18 | It was ridiculous to have let the tank get so low but they had had an argument only three days earlier on whose turn it was to call at the garage and pay for the petrol . |
| 19 | of which he had received His Majesty 's assurance only two days ago . |
| 20 | Speaking to both houses of Congress only 13 days after ordering United States forces into combat against Iraq , the President devoted much of his oration to the Gulf war , passages which were greeted by thunderous applause and standing ovations [ see p. 37940 ] . |
| 21 | The kidnap poses a severe test for the infant government of the Prime Minister , Mr Vishwanath Pratap Singh , which has been in power only nine days . |
| 22 | The dangerous logic of events was leading to a predictable conclusion , though Sarah and Coleridge had met for the first time only nine days before and were of fundamentally different temperaments , she sharp-tongued , humorous and practical , he procrastinating and visionary . |
| 23 | I had trained for the first time only four days before ! |
| 24 | She remembered the time only three days previously when the Senior Scientific Officer of the instrument section bad let her look into the giant scanning electron microscope and watch the image of a minute pill of putty burst instantaneously into an exotic incandescent flower . |
| 25 | In the event , she gave birth to a son only two days before the convention opened . |
| 26 | He was sent back to the front only twenty-one days after Lieutenant Makepeace had leapt up and shouted , ‘ Follow me . ’ |
| 27 | W.D. ( Bill Wickson , who died suddenly on April 15 , aged 77 , had been elected President of Surrey at the club 's AGM only two days previously . |