Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The so-called ’ swan-upping ’ ceremony dates back to the fourteenth century … but nowadays its as much a fun day out as a way of keeping the swans healthy . |
| 2 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 3 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 4 | A typical training programme usually takes the form of a series of workshops , sometimes in a residential setting , lasting around three days with perhaps a follow-up day a few months later . |
| 5 | She is away for hours ; perhaps a whole day . |
| 6 | Anyway , that day was obviously a lucky day . |
| 7 | It 's the Moslem Sabbath , of course , so a good day for Copts to do business on . |
| 8 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
| 9 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
| 10 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 11 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 12 | This was confirmed only a few days ago when yet another visit to the garage became necessary , this time through no fault of the Metro 's . |
| 13 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 14 | Only a few days later , in evidence to a parliamentary committee , he had the temerity to recommend controls on mortgage lending — in direct conflict with present government policy . |
| 15 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
| 16 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 17 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 18 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 19 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
| 20 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
| 21 | Not only has much explanation had to be included , but it is also difficult to make many useful comments after a visit of only a few days . |
| 22 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
| 23 | If the child is certain to live only a few days , the dilemma is tough indeed . |
| 24 | The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ . |
| 25 | By this time , the Egyptian army had entered southern Palestine but Abu Khadra was to watch them , only a few days later , retreating along the beach towards Sinai . |
| 26 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 27 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
| 28 | At first his visit was intended to last only a few days . |
| 29 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 30 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |