Example sentences of "[adj] day in " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a radio announcement on Aug. 1 , a referendum on a draft multi-party constitution was set for Aug. 23-30 , with voting to take place on different days in Eastern , Southern , Northern and Western provinces . |
| 2 | OLD ASIA hands still talk nostalgically about the Good Old Days in many of the region 's cities and ports , which have since had much of their former life and glamour squeezed out of them by oppressive regimes , overcrowding or economic decline . |
| 3 | ‘ My dear fellow , it is but seldom that one has the pleasure of meeting a friend from the old days in Petersburg , but I chanced to be in Vienna recently , and have heard much about you from mutual acquaintances . |
| 4 | Best selling author Lena Kennedy did n't start writing her books about the old days in the East End of London until she was in her 60s , and painter Beryl Cooke also found fame in later life . |
| 5 | The Roger Rabbit film provided an echo of the old days in more ways than one . |
| 6 | The file records he 's strangled people with his bare hands in the old days in Bucharest . |
| 7 | In the old days in Shetland ( and still today in Faroe ) this meant the animals could be driven on to a beach and killed . |
| 8 | Well it was n't er the wife it was a bit of a setback , we had a bungalow you see , a small bungalow which was in a very , very nice part of Plymouth , well on the outskirts of Plymouth actually , almost in the country and er , to come and find this , well to her it 'd be like a , a terraced house , her mind went back to the old days in Manchester where she came from with the old terraced houses and I think she visualized that then to go in a house that had a , a square room , do you follow ? |
| 9 | His pizza slices certainly rekindle memories of the good old days in football … they taste like Dubbin . |
| 10 | The apostles , the folk who had known Jesus in the old days in Galilee , Stephen , Paul ; all are ‘ witnesses of these things ; and so is the Holy Spirit whom God had given to those who obey him ’ ( Acts 5:32 ) . |
| 11 | And it runs through the town and was the means of driving the waterwheels in the old days in the factories . |
| 12 | How Does the Tsar Drink Tea ? ’ ; the chilling story , from the old days in the shtetl , of the night Great-Grandpa Rosenbloom heard the robbers climbing through the window ; two cracked choruses of ‘ The People 's Flag is Deepest Red ’ … |
| 13 | " It was just like talking to him in the old days in Algiers in Allied Force Headquarters . " |
| 14 | If any body governed Athens from day to day , it was the council of 500 , which met on about 300 days in the year , and which had , among other duties , the task of preparing the agenda for meetings of the assembly . |
| 15 | After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December . |
| 16 | Cosmonaut chief Col Volkov has spent more than 300 days in space . |
| 17 | Eighteenth-century data are scarce , but the problem is indicated by the fact that the Huddersfield Canal lost thirty-nine days in 1818 . |
| 18 | The new guarantee , good for the first year after purchase , would entitle consumers to free repairs , a replacement on loan or compensation if the product is not repaired within five days ( three for motor vehicles ) , the choice of a refund or replacement if the fault can not be put right in three attempts , or if the product is under repair for 30 days in any 12-month period . |
| 19 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 20 | Hip fracture patients who do not come home early tend to spend 30 days in hospital , at much greater cost to the taxpayer . |
| 21 | HOLLYWOOD beauty Demi Moore once spent 30 days in hospital battling a rare kidney disease which brought her to the brink of death . |
| 22 | For the first 30 days in Nepal bank exchange receipts for $20 a day are no longer required to obtain a trekking permit . |
| 23 | A company may close the register for any time or times not exceeding in total 30 days in any year . |
| 24 | Experienced secondary mathematics teachers will be seconded for 30 days in the academic year , to gain experience of the applications , examine the educational implications of the software , and to design and test computer-based educational environments for the classroom . |
| 25 | A state of emergency , which already existed over two-thirds of the country ( representing more than 50 per cent of the population ) , had been reimposed for 30 days in the capital Lima on March 23 in an effort to protect candidates , following the murder of a FREDEMO congressional candidate , Julio Gálvez . |
| 26 | Elections had been suspended for at least 30 days in at least 31 municipalities while the votes were reportedly still being counted in the rest . |
| 27 | Sid Boyling and I joined forces that year on a holiday to New York , and spent some days in Toronto , en route , visiting the Canadian National Exhibition . |
| 28 | We had spent some days in the hills of Mayo before deciding to go to Croagh Patrick . |
| 29 | They were staying in a hotel until they could find a Hat , but his doctor insisted that they spend some days in Brighton so that he could properly recover . |
| 30 | Cured of his bulging toothache , refreshed by some days in the open air on his father 's farm and steeled by his resolution , he appeared as a handsome , personable man — about the same height as Tom but from a different local stock — blond hair flecked with auburn , skin pale , lean-shanked , eyes duck-egg blue . |