Example sentences of "[num] or [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1763 Collinson told Bartram of his concern for the Carolina : Captain Friend being taken by the Spaniards and carried into Bilboa , but as she was taken eleven or twelve days after the treaty was signed , she has been claimed and , I hear , this day , she will be delivered . |
| 2 | You spend eight or nine days together for one big effort over one weekend and it 's completely different to playing in a tournament . ’ |
| 3 | At first I could not devote so much time to the orchestra but by the early 1960s I was coming to a position where I was able to be with the orchestra a very great deal , working for eight or ten days at a time on concerts , records , and films . |
| 4 | Disagreeing with him over the patients ' preparatory period before inoculation , which he proposed to reduce from a month to eight or ten days , and recommending an open-air regime instead of confinement indoors following inoculation , Sutton left to set up his own practice at Ingatestone , Essex , in October 1763 . |
| 5 | Most pairs in Britain lay in the middle two weeks of May , with the eggs hatching 12 or 13 days later . |
| 6 | Courses are of eight , 12 or 20 days for different age groups from 14 upwards , and they earn a mention in the new National Curriculum . |
| 7 | After 2 or 3 days blisters will appear and form a narrow band on one side of the body or face . |
| 8 | No news for 6 months then she came along with an anal fissure , she 'd not had any stomach problems and in fact had only taken the Arg Nit LM3 for 2 or 3 days till the headache went . |
| 9 | Thus no meteorologist would attempt to forecast the weather 2 or 3 days ahead without using a mathematical model based on observations from all around the world . |
| 10 | Man-21 units 2 or 3 days without alcohol |
| 11 | Women-14 units 2 or 3 days without alcohol |
| 12 | Be shall mow two meadows in Wodemed for 7 days and on Westmede for 2 or 3 days until it is reped , and what is mown in 2 days there he shall make with his companions … and the lord shall give the mowers of the two meadows 4s. for making the hay . |
| 13 | If you examine the culture 2 or 3 days later you will probably find quite a different collection of animals . |
| 14 | This may take up to 2 or 3 days , depending on the type of soil and how damp it was to start with . |
| 15 | In a few months time we are hoping to start a lunch club in the hall on 2 or 3 days per week , providing a three course lunch for a very small cost . |
| 16 | 2 or 3 days at home in Oxfordshire is a luxury , even when he does get the chance to relax , he watches re-runs and readies himself for the next race . |
| 17 | This takes note of the widespread area staff wish for the larger piece of time in a Region ( but also gives the shorter period too ) : it reduces a lot of sorting out of requests by the Overseas Groups and simplifies for them a pretty complicated and demanding piece of work : it means we do n't expect visitors to fly from one end of the UK & Ireland every 2 or 3 days as has sometimes happened in trying to meet a lot of requests . |
| 18 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 19 | The Jordanians are doing a magnificent job , keeping , keeping the show going erm people in those camps in many cases have been there for 4,5 or 7 days . |
| 20 | Six or seven days , I would say — I 'll not be able to be more precise until the autopsy . ’ |
| 21 | And I 'm saying to Mrs Jones , yeah I 'll do whatever , y'know , I used to have some good contacts with Estate Agents and that and they would just ring me up and say will you come and do so and so and we want it done within six or seven days , y'know , a house that they were selling , that they 'd want completely doing from top to bottom inside and out . |
| 22 | They race through the 277 miles of the Grand Canyon in six or seven days , drinking beer and spewing exhaust fumes all the way . |
| 23 | Blowing right to left across the beach , and slightly on shore , it quickly reaches force 4 or more on about 65% of the afternoons in season , including the odd flat patch when nothing blows at all for six or seven days . |
| 24 | ‘ When I 'm away for more than six or seven days , the pang starts and I need to see her ’ . |
| 25 | A squadron commander would suggest to me that " old so-and-so is getting a bit teased-out and perhaps he should be rested " , or " it might be convenient if he did not return after his next leave " — these leaves were quite frequent , something like six or seven days every six or seven weeks . |
| 26 | Promotional tools used by Historic Scotland include the Scottish Explorer Ticket , which allows visitors to see as many properties as they can within either 7 or 14 days . |
| 27 | Answers of this kind were often accompanied by alternative suggestions such as 5 , 7 or 14 days . |
| 28 | And it is the exciting part of my job is to make these links work , start to build on them , and over our links in the city on the environmental and group with Tony Benn , that 's that 's doing a very good job , he is a platform for this , for each other , but I think there 's a lot more we can do locally erm within the city to build those links , and to work together for better answers for the city , and I hope that , on a practical level , one of the things that interested me was your grants team for local organisations , and I would like to think myself here today , we might look at the health authority , and try to join with them to make some erm practical contribution , particularly to those many carers , and groups of people who have problems , and we 're not all just professionals best able to put over during our normal nine-to-five or eight-to-eight days , we we can . |
| 29 | And is that three or five days ? |
| 30 | The fresher the soot , the longer it needed to percolate through the hessian , but within three or four days the water would be nicely laced . |