Sentence examples for a day and waiting from inspiring English sources

Having a store of spares can mean the difference between repairing an escalator in a day and waiting up to three weeks for a replacement part to be fabricated.

Prepare to spend much of your time in Tornado Alley (anywhere on the US Great Plains from south Texas up to Nebraska) driving – as much as 500 miles in a day – and waiting at gas stations.

"To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed.

The weapons are manned by specially trained airmen known as missileers, who sit in the underground launch centers in the middle of North Dakota fields 24 hours a day and wait in the event of a presidential order to launch the weapons of mass destruction.

The 67-year-old retiree said she's been eating once a day and waits for her benefits to accumulate on her electronic benefits transfer card before she uses it to buy groceries.

The 800 slots were filled in less than a day, and the waiting list continues to grow.

Almost all patients reported that it was usually possible to visit a FD the same day and waiting times were acceptable, even if making an appointment was unusual.

He was the difference between St. John's 16-133) planothernother day and waiting for a National Invitation Tournament bid.

The parish church peals out the Ottery Song three times a day, and just wait till you hear what the townsfolk get up to with the bellringers on Pixie Day.

Eighty schoolchildren take cycling classes on a Friday and its waiting list grows by the day.

It turns out he enjoys a spot of fishing on a Sunday, and while waiting for a tug on his line would pop a maggot up his jap's eye because he liked the way they wriggled up his tube.