Example sentences of "part of [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 2 | Soon , it would take the better part of two days to pass between Famagusta and Kouklia . |
| 3 | ‘ But it 'll take you the best part of two days to provide the concealment , ’ said Dorrainge , surveying Lugh 's neatly drawn plans and watching the men sawing off branches and raking up leaves from the forest floor . |
| 4 | ‘ Having with difficulty crossed the range over an entire new country , and penetrated to the centre of the dense Eucalypti scrub alluded to , in which I spent a night and part of two days without water for my horses , I was compelled , much to my regret , to beat a hasty retreat back to the ranges , in the gullies of which I even found difficulty in obtaining water . |
| 5 | Her anger kept her going for the best part of two days , but then Mick bumped into her and asked how Jack was , and she told him , in words of one syllable . |
| 6 | During the early part of that day , orders were given to the army to arrest strike organisers over much of Ulster . |
| 7 | There was minimal communication between the two , but Jane breached the divide as — partly to get away from Evelyn 's chatter , gossip and telephones , she took to working for part of each day in the scientific library . |
| 8 | Man is essentially a social being and spends the major part of each day communicating with other people in one way or another . |
| 9 | Members of the group with whom he lives , usually the family , are no longer present ; the people with whom he communicates at work are absent ; and likewise the people with whom he chooses to spend the leisure part of each day . |
| 10 | All the experience suggests that their minds are absent on social issues , as Susie confessed hers were during at least part of each day . |
| 11 | Edouard set aside a part of each day to be with him . |
| 12 | I shall set aside a part of each day to think about you . ’ |
| 13 | Written between 1599 and 1605 , it describes the religious exercises and prayers for the whole household as well as the private prayers and readings which occupied a large part of each day , and in which Lady Hoby was guided by her chaplain , Richard Rhodes . |
| 14 | Time was thrown completely out of joint by the instant transition from long periods of inactivity , when the most dramatic part of any day was a slow walk to the bathroom and back , to a chaos of orders , panic , delays and wild hurries , fear and physical discomfort . |
| 15 | At Great Dun Fell in Cumbria , which is under cloud for part of 250 days a year , cloud is on average four times as acid as rain at the same spot , with more than twice the ammonium , nitrate and sulphur . |
| 16 | Aye going going flat out you know they 're er heavy rains the machines are going flat out er at the s one night I I sat I sat er all night and ne nearly part of next day at side of one of governors , to make sure it did n't shift no more than a about a sixteenth of an inch . |
| 17 | stated that the course was in two parts of 12 days . |
| 18 | It was never used by the Greeks , who divided the month into three parts of ten days each , but it was employed by the Jews ( see p. 55 ) . |