Example sentences of "day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ls the opening to generate atmosphere and mood , to establish the location , time of day and/or period which will give an air of reality ? |
| 2 | You see , lass , he died the day afore yesterday . ’ |
| 3 | Managers review the distribution of work throughout the 24-hour periods and adjust the patient 's day where appropriate . |
| 4 | Any complaints from tenants will be swiftly followed up within one working day where possible . |
| 5 | This means you can get professional help any time of the day or night , and at weekends . |
| 6 | I do not want , wrote Harsnet , to try and trace this logic or to dwell , in these notes , on the nature and direction of my earlier work , especially , he wrote , as I have always held that any new work worth its salt should be essentially different from all that has gone before , all that others have done and all that you have done , just as the deeds of each new day must never simply repeat those of the previous day or days . |
| 7 | A day or so later , I came down with a very nasty bout of influenza . |
| 8 | Always bear in mind that when they flower outdoors at their natural time the temperature is unlikely to reach 60°F ( 15°C ) for more than a day or two . |
| 9 | ‘ I would wait a day or two , ’ Cameron answered reluctantly . |
| 10 | ‘ No — nothing for a day or two . ’ |
| 11 | They 'll be with you again in a day or two , if you do n't hold us up . |
| 12 | I 'll be out in a day or so . |
| 13 | Attendance Allowance is paid at a lower rate to people who require personal care or attention by day or night , and at a higher rate to those requiring care by day and night . |
| 14 | We say we are thirsty when we mean that we fancy a glass of wine , a pint of beer , a gin and tonic or a shot of whisky — the pleasure of naming our poison — at the end of a busy day or tiresome week . |
| 15 | INSOMNIACS bored with counting sheep can now organise their financial affairs at any time of the day or night , seven days a week with the launch of Firstdirect , Midland Bank 's telephone banking service . |
| 16 | Customers can call Firstdirect at any time of the day or night at local call rates and be immediately connected to a banking representative who will carry out instructions on the computer . |
| 17 | The Leeds Permanent said yesterday it would announce an increase of at least 1.25 points ‘ within a day or two ’ . |
| 18 | The ethnographer 's conventional notepad can be obtrusive , yet when time in the field extends to a full eight-hour shift , it is impossible to dispense with it , for without notes one is left only with general impressions recorded at the end of the day or fragmentary notes recorded surreptitiously ; yet to use a tape-recorder would have been more obtrusive . |
| 19 | Whether they watched BBC-TV news regularly ( asked in the pre-Campaign Wave ) , and whether they had watched BBC-TV news on the day or day before the interview ( in the first and second fortnight of the campaign ) . |
| 20 | Allow a full day or more , if you can spare it — there is a wealth of cliff , pinnacle and precipice to explore . |
| 21 | If you 're staying elsewhere on the island you can join the wildlife walks for a day or more . |
| 22 | Only a day or two ago in The Times , a high academic figure was complaining that ‘ the nature of the demand for education , at least over the next few years , seems unlikely to correspond with any precision to the national need for more scientists and technologists ’ . |
| 23 | There were some attempts at consultation , notably with Commonwealth finance ministers in 1947 and 1949 , but the relationship is perhaps symbolized by the fact that the RSA countries were not consulted on devaluation in 1949 , simply informed of the decision a day or two before it took place . |
| 24 | A day or two later we were enlightened — Dagbladdet is the name of the daily paper . |
| 25 | We get £28 a week whether we are sitting at a machine all day or operating heavy presses . |
| 26 | In summer the sun does not set and so there is no alternation of day or night to give cues as to the passage of time . |
| 27 | Another problem is that the tests show practice effects ; that is , for the first day or so of testing , subjects ' performances improve greatly ( and so mask any daily rhythms ) as they are getting used to the tests and are developing their personal ways of tackling them . |
| 28 | There is no good evidence to indicate that these processes can not be achieved by the body equally well at any time of the day or night . |
| 29 | For the first day or so after the flight you might find it helps to retire to bed one or two hours earlier than your normal time — but no earlier than that ! |
| 30 | A ‘ lie-in ’ of one to two hours but no more is permissible for the first day or so . |