| Hopefully, all the little ones and not so little, enjoyed their day off school and work due to the downfall of snow, last week. |
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| Mind you, today is Ascension Day, a Holy Day of Obligation, so we would have had the day off, anyway. |
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| My ideal day off is one spent with a book, a bottle of water and a comfortable lounger somewhere in the sun. |
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| Of course, there's no such thing as a free lunch, and a day off now has to be made up later. |
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| If you feel progressively chillier over a week, take a day off to allow your body to recover. |
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| The musicians seem to have set their instruments on autopilot and taken the day off. |
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| Gail ordered Mexican tiles for the stove backsplash, and Bill took a day off from work to help her set them. |
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| Well, it is Thanksgiving Day here in Canada and as such, we have the day off! |
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| At the end of 1980, he took his first day off for months to celebrate Thanksgiving Day. |
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| But the youngsters who zoom on their bikes curving along the hairpin bends have to take a day off. |
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| A quick review of timecards found women working over 315 hours in a month and 20 consecutive days without a day off. |
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| And to top the day off, the agency I've been working for over the last two years sent out the paperwork for the contract extension. |
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| Students at Mt Nelson Primary School were given the day off after a tree fell across powerlines and cut electricity to the school. |
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| The crew is on duty for three 24-hour shifts with a day off in between each and then four days off. |
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| Youngsters had a great time sledging down a slope at Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, County Durham on a bonus day off school. |
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| It is claimed that some have not had a day off since Boxing Day and that they are worried at the lack of training they have received. |
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| I had the day off work on Friday, so I went round to Fay's and received some unexpected news. |
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| Still, nothing ventured, nothing gained, and we took the day off to get lunch at IKEA and buy another pack of gummy anti-slip mesh stuff. |
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| If a non-qualified employee is not asked to work on Victoria Day, he or she gets the day off with no pay. |
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| So, like the brave little bunny I am, I took the day off and have mainly spent it vegetating and feeling sick. |
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| After almost 30 years of working six days a week, Otley pork butchers David and Barbara Brown are looking forward to a day off. |
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| Unlike some people I know who simply spent the day off mallhopping, I was cajoled into going to school to help out my mom for five hours. |
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| Britain once had its days of cakes and ale, and a week which began with a day off. |
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| And there is no need to add a day off to the nation's calendar for all this worthy effort. |
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| I started the day off trying to stave off my hangover with the hair of the dog. |
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| In some jobs, and this is one of them, there is no such thing as a day off, or a night off, or a holiday without interruption. |
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| If they put in their required weekly practice time, he would reward them by letting them take a day off school to go on a family ski trip. |
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| Her family work as daily labourers and a day off can wreak havoc for the family's economy. |
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| At nine her sight and hearing are perfect and she has only had one day off sick in the past three years at school. |
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| There's nothing like the sweet sounds of an electric guitar to start the day off well, though for some reason my neighbours disagree. |
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| Summer decided to take the day off today, turning over to a chill, grey, rainy fit of the sulks. |
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| So they play pool, swim and sunbathe and have a game of golf on their day off. |
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| It was also the day when indentured servants were given the day off to celebrate with their families. |
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| The only reason I can write this tonight, is because we finally have a day off tomorrow. |
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| Today was her day off from her relentless study as a graduate student at the conservatoire. |
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| I know that the first thing in the morning I'll be wandering into work on my day off to find it. |
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| I have to take a day off to go the European council meeting for foreign ministers. |
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| Tomorrow will be my first proper day off for a fortnight and I feel utterly worn out. |
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| That live broadcast pre-empted Seven's Sunday Sunrise, giving Michael Pascoe a day off. |
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| All of which means that we steel people are having a day off today in celebration of 11 years. |
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| In Britain of course, posties get the day off when it's a holiday which I think is much fairer. |
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| With that, Reedie left for home and a rare day off to spend with his wife Rosemary. |
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| As I had a day off today, the wife decided we should go to Dewsbury for a few things then go for a walk in Crows Nest park. |
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| She's at home in Newcastle having a rare day off from her hectic tour schedule. |
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| One of the joys of shift work is the day off in the middle of the week, which I am enjoying today. |
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| Big Sis has the day off work today, so we're soldiering on over to Southfork Ranch. |
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| The players who started all four holiday games have been given an extra day off to rest. |
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| He was not at the count as he was unable to take a day off work but delighted supporters phoned to let him know the result. |
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| She waltzed in on my day off like she owned the place, stole my desk by the window and binned my priceless collection of elastic bands. |
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| Kym kicked 2 goals and his team won the game but his real excuse to take the day off on Monday arrived at 3.30 that morning. |
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| So from waking up and starting the day off with foul expletives, my mood has changed to one of relative happiness. |
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| Already their workers, in effect, get double time for work on a public holiday, because they get a day off in lieu. |
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| In return for double time and a day off in lieu, we expect firefighters to work normally on public holidays. |
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| I guess it's the spammers' day off work, so they get to run their automated mail bots to send things out. |
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| It was an 80-floor walk-up, we were saying, and they'd better book the next day off. |
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| The Irish celebrate St Patrick's Day with the day off work and the chance to get blind drunk on Guinness. |
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| Factories often force employees to work overtime or stay on the job for weeks without a day off. |
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| Despite the harsh conditions they never take a day off, working seven days a week in any weather. |
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| The boyfriend and I had a day off yesterday and went on a jolly round the Thames like tourists. |
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| It put us to greater inconvenience and expense than taking the day off to shop. |
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| There are those of us who like nothing better than to start the day off with a piece of cherry pie and whipped cream. |
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| A recent survey, published by the daily Le Parisien, showed that two-thirds of French people were against giving up their Whit Monday day off. |
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| I know I should start to share the comings and goings of the trip but I need to take another day off, I'm afraid. |
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| I had a day off yesterday and as you can see I got some really deep poems written. |
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| Residents near the store, who have taken a day off from work, come in for some window shopping. |
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| Paul Hanagan got his Derby day off to a winning start as he rode Vintage Premium to victory. |
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| I don't know what you're like when you haven't had a day off in three weeks but I get a bit woolly headed and unable to commit to basic chores. |
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| I thought I might take the day off from work, but I think working will actually be good. |
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| Students were given the day off so teachers from across the Mid West could refresh and improve their skills. |
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| Vera Duckworth, alias Leeds-born Liz Dawn, booked a day off from serving chips at Roy's Rolls to become Peggy Lee. |
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| And so on this Labor Day, when many have the day off, we thank our men and women who wear our uniform. |
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| Many Canadians will have the day off Monday for Labour Day in honour of working people everywhere. |
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| If a non-qualified employee is not asked to work on Labour Day, he or she gets the day off with no pay. |
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| On Mothering Sunday the servants would have the day off and were encouraged to return home and spend the day with their mothers. |
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| On Mothering Sunday, the servants were given the day off and encouraged to go spend the day with their mothers. |
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| He went on to say the people who took the day off to express their opposition to the war were solidly left and markedly anarchist and Marxist. |
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| Nearly 3,000 pupils were given the day off on Friday after arctic conditions forced some west Wiltshire schools to close. |
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| I have to spend my precious day off in front of a PC doing nothing but geeky stuff all day long. |
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| However, the fourth Sunday of Lent was hailed as a day for honouring mothers, when servants would have the day off and be encouraged to return home. |
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| We were driven by Santo Piccione, a watch-repairer and fine deacon from the Santa Elisabetta church who takes one day off each week to do his diaconal duties. |
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| To make up for the day off, Saturday December 11 is to be a working day. |
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| I must get a bit poorly sometimes, otherwise I wouldn't know what a head cold feels like, but I can't remember the last time I took a day off sick. |
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| To blow off steam, he gave us the next day off, and we went bass fishing. |
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| It was the end of a busy week for many of the players, and some of the regulars chose a day off after their round in the Independence Day event the previous day. |
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| And Rose is desperately appealing to all registrars to skip their day off and allow the couple, who have been together for six years, to get married. |
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| Reviewing the same timecards O'Rourke found one employee worked 316.5 hours in a month for an average 79 hours a week, including 20 consecutive days of work without a day off. |
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| Making it an official day off salved my conscience a little. |
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| This was all done with a very snotty cold and tight chesty cough, the like of which would have made me take a day off were I working for someone other than myself. |
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| It is not a day off for farmers and stockmen, any more than Christmas Day. |
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| There was stress-induced frustration and extra guilt when the children got sick and the arguments started about whose turn it was to take the day off work. |
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| There had been fears that Friday's game would have hit the markets badly, with thousands taking a day off work and share prices taking a tumble, whatever the outcome. |
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| And fairly often, during the winter, we'd be snowed in, which meant a day off school and the chance to hook up with the children that lived nearby to go sledging. |
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| They do not mind paying penal rates, but when they have to give employees a day off in lieu, as well, then members can imagine the sorts of costs that will be incurred. |
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| Katerina sat in the middle of her room, on the bed to be exact, shuffling through old photographs of Mitzy and Renee, who had taken the day off to go shopping. |
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| To them it was a joke, some prank and they treated it like a day off. |
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| While some managers of vanquished teams have given their players a break, Gray has sentenced his men to hard labour and they will not have a day off until Friday. |
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| The court heard Mr Stones and Miss Collins felt no ill effects but Mr Gill suffered an upset stomach and diarrhoea and headache and had to take a day off work. |
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| In honor of the confluence of Memorial Day and Shavuot, Open Zion is taking the day off. |
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| She unconsciously marked each day off on her desk calendar in her office. |
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| On Memorial Day, much of the patrol force was busy at the parade or at a ball game at the Polo Grounds, or was enjoying a day off granted to veterans. |
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| Snow can mean a day off school, sledding, and most of all, Christmas. |
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| A rostered day off is a well earned day off as most would know. |
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| After a day off from shooting The fisher King, Robin Williams decides to work out. |
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| Perhaps they are perturbed by reports of young people recklessly taking the day off work to join The Sun's bikini-clad lovelies on beaches around the country. |
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| Taking my Constitutionals indoors removes the option of taking the day off and blaming it all on the interaction between sun, earth, and atmosphere. |
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| He had been on a day off when he was shot dead yesterday afternoon. |
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| Even though Good Friday is an official national holiday, it is not a mandatory day off for commercial companies. |
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| Sri Lanka's seamers, like their dibbly-dobblers of yesteryear, gave the speedometer a day off, their deliveries rarely touching 80mph. |
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| Although it is a bank holiday, banks are not required to close and employers are not required to give their employees the day off as a holiday. |
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| Nesting hens rarely spend more than an hour a day off of the nest feeding and as such become somewhat constipated. |
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| Then, when I was a backstep firefighter in the early 1960s, a fire occurred in an old vacant movie theater on my day off. |
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| For the last fifteen years I've worked out regularly, usually taking only one day off a week Must I lay off running completely for recovery? |
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| Jamie Jetton took the day off from work to bring her two nephews, 6 and 11, visiting from Arizona to the observatory. |
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| Today, a mass tapdance will get the day off to an energetic start in St George's Square from 8am. |
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| Ruff Dog Day shows Dudley the labrador retriever getting his day off to a slow start with a little help from his owner. |
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| It was fantastic to see some quality local talent up with a band as big as The Kooks, who finished the day off perfectly. |
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| Or their half-birthday, if their date of birth falls on a weekend or a day off from school. |
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| It is a fortunate coincidence that Piazza's day off fell on a start by Hideo Nomo, whose sharp-breaking forkballs can batter a catcher. |
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| That settles it. I can't take the day off from work, so I'm not going. |
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| A group of friends gathers to mull over what to do with a day off. |
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| Seb Sanders, who partnered the unplaced Tidal Force, will miss Goodwood today as he has completed his maximum nine meetings in a week and, consequently, has to take a day off. |
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| Kim Grike, the firm's director of operations, told employees they could take the day off with pay because most of them were influenced by Star Wars into becoming techies. |
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| I sat watching the clock tick past my own office time, dreading the possibility that I might have to call work and ask for a day off for the second time in a fortnight. |
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| Bubb and acting coach Judy Brame, the school's associate athletic director, thought the day off would help the team cope with events from Wednesday. |
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| Later, Mothering Sunday became a day when domestic servants were given a day off to visit their mother church, usually with their own mothers and other family members. |
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| Leave it to me. I'll try to work on the boss to give us the day off. |
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| That from a man who has admitted that he once drove around the bars of Southampton on a day off checking if any of his players were having a few shandies. |
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| I asked my colleague to stand in for me so I could take the day off. |
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| On such days it is customary for schools to take the day off. |
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| October 4, 2012 the Parliament of the Republic of Kazakhstan signed the amendments to the Law of Kazakhstan on Holidays which assigned May 7 a national holiday and a day off. |
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