Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | In places , it defies understanding to this day . |
| 2 | EC stocks were reported as amounting to 100 days of consumption , implying a need for action . |
| 3 | ‘ Are your parents coming to Open Day ? ’ asked Katy through a mouthful of grass . |
| 4 | Innate behaviour repertoires only change through natural selection over successive generations and , although their range of tolerance , their capacities , can be extended , their capability in responding to rapid day to day environmental shifts is clearly limited . |
| 5 | Between 1976 and 1996 the average length of time spent in custody by male prisoners awaiting trial more than doubled , from 27 days in 1976 to 57 days by 1996 , before falling to 53 days in 1999 . |
| 6 | Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |