Example sentences of "five day and " in BNC.

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1 AFTER four days of sparring , Eric Vanderaerden unleashed his Sunday punch to knock out the fading hopes of Sean Kelly , and the whole of Ireland , in the Nissan Classic , which finished in Dublin yesterday after five days and 925km .
2 Five days and four nights subjected to shelling and mortaring and the ever-present sniping .
3 Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears .
4 In February our slimmer was never 9 st 8 lb ( 60.8 kg ) , was 9 st 7 lb ( 60.3 kg ) for only six days , 9 st 6 lb ( 59.9 kg ) for five days , 9 st 5 lb ( 59.4 kg ) for six days , 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) for six days , 9 st 3 lb ( 58.5 kg ) for five days and 9 st 2lb ( 58.1 kg ) just once ( a weight not attained at all in January ) .
5 He rang the Wallis 's number twice more during a period of five days and each time got the answerphone .
6 The incubation period between picking up the infection and showing the first clinical signs is four to five days and during this time the animal appears clinically normal .
7 The most accessible way of progress was through education , for most people had very little money and men were prepared to study in the early morning and late at night during a long week 's work — 10 hours a day for five days and five hours on Saturdays .
8 The label 's ‘ Shostakovich Film Festival ’ ( ) is music from The Gadfly , Five Days and Five Nights , Hamlet — and , more dubiously , the Tahiti Trot ( which Shostakovich simply orchestrated for a wager after hearing a gramophone record of it — there 's no evidence he ever saw the son , better known as Tea for Two , performed on film or intended that his own version of it should be ) , and the First Piano Concerto ( some of the themes of which were recycled for a Soviet cartoon in 1933 ! ) .
9 I allow another five days and if no fry have appeared by then I drop a tiny pinch of dry food into the container .
10 Two little bairns — one of 'em nobbut a babby — five days and five nights on a canal barge at this time o' year ? ’
11 They now both work about 35–40 chargeable hours a week , with Roland notching this up in five days and Alison four — ‘ Fridays are sacrosanct , ’ she says .
12 We 've been on the booze for five days and the boys only settled the hotel bar bill at six o'clock on Thursday morning .
13 Today 's game will be Rangers ' third match in five days and striker Les Ferdinand admits : ‘ Tired legs could be a factor . ’
14 Five days and nights of plenary sessions and workshops will explore the changing nature of the religious and secular audience and our challenge to respond , ’ says the new NABS-WACC conference brochure .
15 The fact that there was a month 's gap between the early part of the hearing and the second part of the hearing is clearly undesirable and , if the justices had had any idea that the case was going to take five days and involve a gap of a month , I imagine they would have ordered the case to be transferred .
16 The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights .
17 About two thirds of infections occur in the first five days and more than half of these are apparent at birth .
18 Residential programmes for family members normally last five days and are separate from the recovery programmes for sufferers from the primary disease .
19 Five days and God knows how many miles to go .
20 Four or five days and it should all be starting
21 When the mice had scattered across the carpet and melted into the shadows by the wainscoting , Alexandra picked up their home of five days and carried it back to her tower room .
22 Subjects were asked to collect every stool for five days and record the time each was passed .
23 In otder to minimise the influence of complications from the initial bleed , patients were only considered to be eligible for entry into the trial once they were stable with no evidence of any bleeding for five days and also no evidence of any other destabilising medical conditions ( such as septicaemia and renal failure ) .
24 The unexpectedly long time between initial bleed and randomisation in the surgery and sclerotherapy groups ( 26 and 20 days respectively ) was caused by several factors : ( i ) If rebleeding occurred randomisation was delayed until stability for a minimum of five days and been achieved .
25 They were there for five days and they were producing them .
26 Around 30 writers will be in Derry during the five days and will be involved in a series of readings , workshops and discussions .
27 It was their third Gold Cup victory , their second in five days and maintained their outstanding record against the Scots , who have still won only once in 21 visits .
28 The college decision should mean the unit can continue with teaching five days and four evenings .
29 The survey also showed that full-time blue-collar workers lost 10 days a year in both manufacturing and services , almost twice the amount of time lost by white-collar workers in manufacturing with five days and in services with six days .
30 But for the institutions , he said , the initial aim would be to introduce a ten-day , rolling settlement system which could be reduced in stages as it became practical , first to five days and then to three days .
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