Example sentences of "[det] a day ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Abundance often lies less than half a day 's jet flight from starvation . |
| 2 | It does , however , illustrate the wild contrasts of California , where large cities , near-deserted beaches , scorching deserts and cool redwood forests all lie within less than half a day 's drive of each other . |
| 3 | Half a day 's walk further on , away from the turbulence caused by high ground , the dunes were no more than ten feet high . |
| 4 | His replacement travelled for four days by train for half a day 's climbing on the slate . |
| 5 | Moving at the pace of the infantry , they had not covered any great distance in the interim and were in fact only half a day 's march ahead when Ramsay reached Lockerbie in the Johnstone country . |
| 6 | Distantly ahead is seen Beinn Fhada , the key to the watershed crossing to Loch Duich , the bealach giving access to Gleann Lichd and Morvich but still half a day 's march away . |
| 7 | The company has also agreed to pay for half a day 's training at its own centre . |
| 8 | One day a messenger came from the great city more than half a day 's journey away across the river , to say that the great king had decided that he would like to have a wife . |
| 9 | ‘ Could you give me a half a day 's holiday tomorrow , Joe ? |
| 10 | Sailing starts next day when papers and briefings are complete ( half a day 's work ) . |
| 11 | The catastrophic fall in union education mirrored a wider malaise in the movement as a whole , as the assumptions that underlay existing strategies started to crumble , The TUC 's own education programme is a case in point ; it expanded rapidly from 1975 , after an internal review of educational services showed that the average workplace or branch official enjoyed half a day 's education a year , but it did so on the basis of government funding combined with statutory entitlements to day release for workplace representatives . |
| 12 | ’ The problem is that those files are stored in boxes in the basement and we normally ask for half a day 's notice . |
| 13 | The Brandt commission ’ Programme for Survival — North versus South ’ produced figures in 1980 showing that just half a day 's military expenditure would suffice to finance the World Health Organisation 's malaria eradication programme . |
| 14 | They 've cleared a trapping ground , half a day 's tracking to the south . |
| 15 | It 's very immediate , we need to be able often to change tack at a , a half a day 's notice , sometimes a minute 's notice , sometimes half a day , so there 's that little problem as well . |
| 16 | And Andy was given half a day 's notice . |
| 17 | I said it 've been better if we 'd all gave him a , a half a day 's gardening |