Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [adj] day and " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There seems no objection to Premier League clubs switching games to all sorts of strange days and times , ’ said Mr Corfe . |
| 2 | His comments were a bit premature because we find that in the next few months more than half those who died were children between the ages of 8 days and 9 years . |
| 3 | A troupe of experts has toured the country giving their views over periods of several days and as a result some courts have convicted and others have acquitted . |
| 4 | And equivalent results have come from at least some studies using the conditioned suppression procedure ( e.g. Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) , who compared intervals of 1 day and 5 days ; Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , who compared 1 day and 8 days ; but see also Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) ) . |
| 5 | Yet , when the Old Cornwall Society revived the custom in 1929 , the fire at St Ives was lit by ‘ Rechard John ’ Hoall of Hellesvean who himself proudly recalled having taken part in lighting the midsummer beacons of former days and seeing the huge blazes in the streets of Penzance . |
| 6 | In fact Major Wiseman 's letter preserves an inaccurate memory — not surprising after so long — of the actual circumstances , for it conflates the events of twelve days and relates them as if they had happened on the same night . |