Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] to the day " in BNC.
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| 1 | their debut single reissued on limited edition CD and seven-inch format , 30 years to the day after it was originally released |
| 2 | Just after the end of the Falklands conflict , my second husband died , suddenly and unexpectedly , almost forty years to the day after he had been wounded and taken prisoner at Tobruk while serving with the Royal Durban Light Infantry in the ill-fated 2nd South African Division . |
| 3 | Aston Villa manager Ron Atkinson last night heightened the tension surrounding today 's Premier League match of the day by recalling that it is six years to the day since Manchester United sacked him . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's just a small celebration in honour of the fact that it 's six years to the day tomorrow since Filippo and I met — ’ She broke off and giggled . |
| 5 | It was six weeks to the day since the Saturday of Arabella 's last dinner party . |
| 6 | It was over six weeks since she had come to work here , and six weeks to the day since his kiss and their painfully honest talk down by the river beneath the moonlight . |
| 7 | Fifty years to the day that the tragedy happened , outside St Laurence church in Winslow , survivors and victims relatives wait for the ceremony to begin Among them , a contingent from the RAF and the only surviving crew member , bomber navigator Jeff Harrington . |
| 8 | Fifty years to the day that the tragedy happened , outside St Laurence church in Winslow , survivors and victims relatives wait for the ceremony to begin Among them , a contingent from the RAF and the only surviving crew member , bomber navigator Jeff Harrington . |
| 9 | Their call came fifty years to the day after an Oxford academic produced a report that became the corner-stone of the welfare state . |
| 10 | Leslie 's first letter to me after our estrangement was written on 23 January 1943 , the day Tripoli fell , and three months to the day after the second Battle of Alamein had begun . |
| 11 | John was 21 years old when he married Ann Oldbury on 15 June 1771 , three months to the day after the death of his father during that most vicious of winters . |
| 12 | Is the Secretary of State aware that it is almost three years to the day that we heard of the Clapham rail tragedy , which was caused by faulty signalling and negligence ? |
| 13 | On Monday Glen Hoddle 's red and white army will march on Wembley … they 've been there before … its three years to the day since they beat Sunderland but overnight promotion turned into relegation as the illegal payments scandal wrecked the club … |
| 14 | It 's three years to the day since Tony Alliss died from gunshot wounds . |
| 15 | It was nearly 21 years to the day since joined ( as it was then ) as a salesman in Dorset . |
| 16 | Down the mountainside above the city at dawn on 10 November — almost 17 months to the day since the civil war had begun — there filed column after column of Syrian tanks , artillery and troop transporters at least 20 miles of them , clogging the valleys with clouds of blue exhaust fumes . |
| 17 | 5 years to the day , the Rogers family were in the television room of the Herald of Free Enterprise , when it capsized just outside Zeebrugge . |
| 18 | To mark the Golden Jubilee in 1937 and on the occasion of its Consecration by Bishop Poskitt , 50 years to the day after its opening , three new marble altars dedicated to the Sacred Heart , Our Lady and St Patrick were placed in the church . |
| 19 | Cadets from Forres , Lossiemouth and Aberdeen Airport decided to research the accident and erect a cairn and plaque commemorating the crash exactly 50 years to the day after the accident . |
| 20 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 21 | On Saturday , 29 weeks to the day since they first met , Heather and Chris were married at Darlington 's Elm Ridge Methodist Church . |
| 22 | The Parliament Act provides merely that the life of Parliament will end by effluxion of time , five years to the day after its first meeting , only if it has not previously been dissolved by the monarch and , these days , it invariably is . |
| 23 | The ceremony , at the Legislative Assembly in Port-au-Prince , the capital , was five years to the day since the popular overthrow of " President for Life " Jean-Claude Duvalier . |
| 24 | ‘ Almost 15 years to the day after the first pulsar was found at Cambridge … |
| 25 | TWO years to the day after Chernobyl blew up , Valeri Legasov hanged himself from the balustrade in the stairwell of his Moscow house . |
| 26 | Coming two years to the day after the massacre in Tbilisi of 20 Georgian nationalist demonstrators by Soviet troops [ see p. 36593 ] , the declaration followed the overwhelming " yes " vote in Georgia 's March 31 independence referendum [ see pp. 38078-79 ] . |
| 27 | Two years to the day after the killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's massage parlour . |
| 28 | Two years to the day after the brutal killing , three women were working in the former Pinky 's Massage parlour . |
| 29 | TWO YEARS to the day since Howard Kendall tied the knot with Everton for a second time , a forgotten child of his first managerial union with the Goodison club shone when he needed him most . |
| 30 | ON THURSDAY — exactly 20 years to the day since their son went missing — Joan and Ted McDermott made the emotional journey back to Belfast . |