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child under fifteen for every day
They destroyed bread and sugar to last every child under fifteen for every day of the war.
— from The Fiddlers; Drink in the Witness Box by Arthur Mee

crawled up five feet every day
“This snail was to crawl up a wall twenty feet high; he crawled up five feet every day, and slipped back again four feet every night: in how many days did he reach the top of the wall?”
— from Tales and Novels — Volume 01 Moral Tales by Maria Edgeworth

come up from Fulham every day
"I was very ill," he once said, "some months ago, and my doctor gave me particular orders not to expose myself to it; so I come up [from Fulham] every day to Crockford's, or some other place to dinner, and I make it a rule on no account to go home again till about four or five o'clock in the morning."
— from Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries by John Timbs

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