Example sentences of "to [adj] day " in BNC.
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1 | In January 1922 the Smolensk party committee estimated that there was only enough fuel of all kinds left for seven to eight days ' consumption . |
2 | Some foals develop a milk diarrhoea when the mare shows a foal heat usually six to eight days after foaling . |
3 | ( ii ) Second reading In his discussions with the Leader of the House relating to the Bill , the Minister will have arranged for certain times ( usually a day or two , but perhaps up to eight days ) to have been set aside for the second reading debate . |
4 | Although the time it takes an egg to travel from the ovary to the womb can be five to eight days , the egg itself can only be fertilised in the first 6–24 hours following ovulation . |
5 | We were seven to eight days from Deal to Plymouth . |
6 | In three quarters of cases , they laid their eggs , which take about 11 days to emerge , in nests containing perch eggs that were still white , and therefore less than six to eight days old ( at which time they rapidly turn much darker ) , with at least another week to go before hatching . |
7 | Day 8 was chosen as previous studies have shown that the number of primed lymphocytes in peripheral bood is maximal six to eight days after administration of the antigen on day 1 . |
8 | The secretory studies usually started after six to eight days of recovery from the surgery usually after 12 hours of food but not water deprivation . |
9 | It should be noted that K + channels were seen after four to eight days of culture when cells were subconfluent , but never beyond eight days when the cells were fully confluent . |
10 | In extreme cases , people had gone without fuel for up to eight days over a series of two-week periods . |
11 | Degrees are still however conferred by the Chancellor , whose title dates back to pre-Reformation days and whose authority is represented by the University Mace . |
12 | Bills of exchange can have terms of up to 180 days before settlement takes place and can therefore be used to bridge a financial gap between the exporter making shipment and the importer taking delivery and selling the goods . |
13 | The follow up varied from 41 to 180 days , and because the trial was stopped only 48% of the patients were followed up for six months . |
14 | The Ministry of Works and Public Services was authorized to sell them or arrange concessions in them within 90 to 180 days . |
15 | Following transmission , hepatitis B has an incubation period of 30 to 180 days . |
16 | The next day Ershad and his wife were formally arrested under the Special Powers Act , which allowed the authorities to detain them without charge for up to 120 days . |
17 | David Alexander , a depute director , told the education committee that the staff at Castle Toward residential education centre had been informed last Tuesday that the committee would yesterday discuss their transfer to mainstream day schools . |
18 | ‘ Everything 's more difficult these days , ’ grumbles a bed-ridden pensioner in a Chilean film ; and although , as it happens , he is referring to that day 's crossword , the comment itself speaks volumes . |
19 | The church clock , slowly and deliberately striking seven in the morning , was like a knell to that day 's death . |
20 | She was pleased that most people she told the story to that day proved to be a more appreciative audience than Marie had been . |
21 | In the case of flights departing between 00.01 and 04.00 hours , the day of departure is deemed to be the previous day and the cost appropriate to that day is chargeable . |
22 | When he published Parachute Padre , Fraser McLuskey mentioned the fact that to that day no trace had been found of the missing plane . |
23 | They were both part of Bob Dylan 's backing band in the disastrous film Hearts Of Fire : Fred had to teach the songs they would mime to that day to Dylan each morning . |
24 | I am concerned that your correspondent rang Climbline at 7.15pm only to have to listen to that day 's forecast . |
25 | Returning now to that day in 1811 , the hair-raising events of those next few hours graphically unfold through the words of the voyagers themselves , taken from a contemporary account in The Gentleman 's Magazine : |
26 | I look forward to that day — I 'm not in the big load carrier league ! |
27 | And in any event we rejoice that God is leading us all forward to that day when we shall be with him , when we will be with the one who makes all things new . |
28 | She swallowed carefully , her mind skittering back to that day at the office when Rebecca had returned unexpectedly and disturbed them . |
29 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
30 | However , if you pursue the associations and begin to delve into the latent content , what you often find is that those day 's residues , which are specific to that day , as Theresa was saying , relate to more general erm situations , or indeed to things that actually happened in the past which that particular aspect of that particular day might remind you of . |