Example sentences of "[det] a day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Before I went in the ring , I had to spend half a day just cooling down my adrenaline . |
| 2 | It was this that had prevented me from resting half a day here or there , from starting late in the morning and from stopping early in the evening . |
| 3 | In his valley the ploughing 's started and , because his family 's small , no one could be spared to come with him to help him fetch his wood and water — and although the water 's nearby , the firewood 's half a day away . |
| 4 | If she was put into skischool for half a day then one adult had to forgo any skiing for that period , since after delivering the child to the skischool meeting place in the centre of the village the travelling time to the slopes was too long to be able to go up , ski and be back down in time to pick up the child from the skischool in the centre of the village again at the end of her lesson . |
| 5 | What 's this half a day then ? |
| 6 | half a day then . |
| 7 | Kathleen had several times suppressed the thought that if they had telephoned to the doctor half a day earlier , Faith might . |
| 8 | you know so erm so some er a lot more should 've been done about actually getting , even if it was just well I 'm in that area , I 'm in the area on such and such a day anyway so I can call in to see you . |
| 9 | " Certainly it would be a tragedy to see the two most powerful nations on earth destroying each other in such a way , " he agreed , " and let us pray that such a day never comes . " |