Example sentences of "one [prep] [adj] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | A total of 364 economists , almost one for each day of the year , dispatched a formal letter to The Times denouncing the government 's economic approach as ruinous — though they were soon matched by a similarly large number of economists who were prepared to endorse it . |
| 2 | There are five bus stops , one for each day of the week . |
| 3 | This is a 1% sample of Census data for England and Wales , selecting people who gave one of four days in the year as their birthday on their Census form . |
| 4 | It will be one of two days . |
| 5 | It 'll be one of two days , it 'll be the fifteenth of June or the first of July . |
| 6 | one of those day trips |
| 7 | IT WAS one of those days which news editors will remember on their death-beds . |
| 8 | ‘ Just one of those days . |
| 9 | It had been one of those days . |
| 10 | It was two or three days earlier that I had made my appointment , and as luck so often has it , the due day arrived to what can only be described as ‘ one of those days ’ . |
| 11 | I 'm sure that one of those days the dog 's jealousy and the child 's charisma , or the combination of both , will lead to grief . |
| 12 | One of those days was last Friday , when I had a terrible time going to lunch with Herman to meet Ivy . |
| 13 | Instinct told me it was going to be one of those days the moment I removed the little grey shrivelled chicken from the oven . |
| 14 | They just had one of those days when everything came off for them . |
| 15 | It had been one of those days when everything had gone wrong : the stake-out at the Saudi Embassy had produced exactly nothing ; a false alarm , and after six , agonisingly boring hours , Cowley had called through the most welcome of messages : Go home lads . |
| 16 | And I knew from experience that in the ten to fourteen days during wastage of muscle tissue prior to an operation , a patient should normally suffer intense pain almost every hour of every one of those days . |
| 17 | ‘ It was one of those days when it seemed like I had to climb a mountain . |
| 18 | It was one of those days when snow fell all day without sticking and the cold seemed to penetrate right to the bone . |
| 19 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 20 | It was one of those days which all professional golfers have to endure , when their swing is n't quite right . |
| 21 | I did not have the time for this myself , but clearly , a solution is to lie in wait for this photograph on one of those days when the time of performance does not coincide with the time of sunset ! |
| 22 | For month after patient month Torrance ticked over , convinced in his own mind that one of those days his putter would get hot and he would win again . |
| 23 | After she had roared off , it was one of those days when I had the house to myself . |
| 24 | It was one of those days where she stood staring at corridors of soup cans , dithering between chicken korma and coconut or sweetcorn and satay . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's been one of those days , has n't it , Robyn ? ’ he murmured evenly . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's just one of those days . ’ |
| 27 | I was sitting under Marcus 's chair in the garden on one of those days when he stays at home when I heard this noise from next door . |
| 28 | It was one of those days when police academy cadets were controlling the traffic and miles of brightly coloured taxi-cabs slithered very slowly up the avenue of graceful skyscrapers like banded snakes between jungle trees . |
| 29 | AS everyone knows , was Comic Relief Day — one of those days when , if you dared to venture out of your bed , you would be forced to empty your pockets for charity . |
| 30 | I knew this was going to happen it 's going to be one of those days . |