Example sentences of "matter of day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 2 | 5 Airborne Brigade is the Army 's ‘ Instant Readiness ’ Force , and is able to deploy anywhere in the world in a matter of days . |
| 3 | A matter of days after his home-coming party , David was back on tour , this time in the UK . |
| 4 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 5 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 6 | It was technically already unnecessary , for money for both lethal and humanitarian aid had been voted by Congress a matter of days before . |
| 7 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 8 | The air was full of the smell of burning documents , and in some quarters there was talk that the Germans would be on the Nile within a matter of days . |
| 9 | The town of Heimaey in Iceland was buried under basaltic tephra in a matter of days after the commencement of the eruption of the volcano Helgafell in 1973 . |
| 10 | If you will spend just ten or fifteen minutes a day practising a simple relaxation technique , you will begin to feel the benefit within a matter of days . |
| 11 | Generally , the harvesting of essential oil plants should be completed within a matter of days ; any delay , and the essential oils will be lost . |
| 12 | Then in a matter of days , or even one day , are they not up and about again eating us out of house and home ? |
| 13 | This item of equipment enabled the rapid assembly features of the whole range of equipment to be fully exploited , and reduced the erection times for some major bridging operations , from what would normally be months to merely a matter of days . |
| 14 | Working from these , and with microorganisms he is culturing in his laboratory to metabolise related compounds from the chlorodioxin group , Chakrabarty is seeking a single culture that can degrade 2,4,5-T to the point where heavily contaminated soil can be returned in a matter of days to healthy soil that can support plant life . |
| 15 | They 'll be at Leith in a matter of days and then she 'll be gone . ’ |
| 16 | Within a matter of days some were caught more than half a mile away . |
| 17 | Your body may have become out of shape through general neglect over a period of years , yet you can transform it incredibly in a matter of days with my unique dieting methods and special exercises . |
| 18 | A VILLAGE was last night mourning the loss of a second group of fishermen in a matter of days . |
| 19 | A VILLAGE was last night mourning the loss of a second group of fishermen in a matter of days . |
| 20 | By carefully controlling the drying rates in large kilns the time for seasoning can be reduced to a matter of days or weeks . |
| 21 | And a matter of days for Fergie and her friend 's secret world to be shattered . |
| 22 | He had feared for the project 's viability , particularly after it became more widely known that the old lady was to be put through her paces only a matter of days later and just a few miles down the road on the steeply graded Bodmin & Wenford Railway . |
| 23 | However , Echo is promising to cut ports to a matter of days , or at worst weeks , lopping off what could be years of development time in moving from one architecture to another . |
| 24 | ‘ We will also develop conversion methods for our clients , and the Pick and Pick look-alike market , providing them with an open alternative , ’ Salmon said , believing that with Apscore 's help , customers will be able to port code and data from Pick to Unix in a matter of days . |
| 25 | It is understood that the Birmingham-based van operation and Leyland lorry assembly plant in Lancashire have only enough brake and clutch assemblies to last them a matter of days . |
| 26 | In a matter of days Delion sold the site to another company — Hoddle Investments — which is owned by property developer P. J. O'Doherty . |
| 27 | Even so , this prediction was made before hostilities broke out , when the campaign was predicted to last only a matter of days , and his rival at BSkyB managing editor of Sky News , Lis Howell , is less sanguine : ‘ There is n't a bottomless pit of money in any news organisation , ’ she points out . |
| 28 | All of these military adventures are crushed very very quickly , usually in a matter of days . |
| 29 | It is appropriate in this case that there should be an interim residence order , and there should be directions attached to that order that A. be returned forthwith to the care of his father and that G. , R. and M. remain in the care of their father and that there be an inter partes hearing with service of the application as quickly as the Portsmouth County Court can make it possible to be heard , which means within a matter of days not a matter of weeks , because it would be quite wrong for this matter to die down once the child is returned . |
| 30 | As a matter of practice , moneys paid into the account would be transferred from it to the account in Scotland if not immediately , then certainly within a matter of days , for amalgamation with the general fund . |