Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [adj] day " in BNC.

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1 No-one 's ever in for much longer than four days altogether . ’
2 In spite of the clammy heat , shoppers began to hurry , but the rain which fell so readily when rainy days preceded it , now , after a fortnight 's drought , held off as if it could only be squeezed out as a result of some acute and agonising pressure .
3 A journey which once took weeks by camel lasted half a day in a fast motor such as a Range-Rover , rarely more than four days in the most heavily laden truck .
4 Stung to the quick , Kammerer retorted that : ‘ Boulenger was lucky for apparently his eggs developed normally for as long as 5 days before they died .
5 They had taken as long as seventeen days to examine seventy-five schemes .
6 But leave him there alone and snared for as long as ten days , and yes , if he had by then any secrets left , he would confide them all in exchange for the air of the great court , and the music of the Office .
7 These authors found that whereas enhanced platelet function ( increased aggregation to ADP ) was detectable as early as three days following induction of diabetes , elevated levels of the Factor VIII components were not seen for 14–28 days .
8 Further evidence comes from detailed observational studies of adult-child interactions which have suggested that infants are able to synchronise gross motor activity with the intonational contours of adult conversation ( Condon and Sander 1974 ) and that imitation of an adult 's facial expression can occur as early as three days after birth ( Meltzoff and Moore 1977 , 1983 ) .
9 Expression of NFs occurs as early as 9-10 days of gestation in the mouse central and peripheral nervous system and coincides with the appearance of postmitotic neurons ( 2 ) .
10 Hindu teachings allow abortion only where a pregnancy constitutes a danger to the mother 's life , Islamic law allows abortion up to as late as 120 days and under Jewish law the foetus is regarded as a subsidiary of the mother and abortion is permitted as long as a number of doctors recommend it .
11 Yeah she was erm well necessarily cos that day Blue was working on the other team as well so he had his erm break at different time .
12 I never used to stay here more than two days .
13 Part of the suite of a French special ambassador to London in 1626 , on their return journey to Paris , spent no less than five days on the Dover-Calais crossing in very bad weather .
14 So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair .
15 After remission was achieved , a western type lactose free oral diet was reintroduced in the PEN group within a period no longer than two days .
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