Example sentences of "[adj] [adj] days ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Barnicoats is offering an extra 30 days ' credit on orders exceeding £500 placed in January from its 1993 Travel Catalogue . |
2 | The public-sector and service industries had been unable to give the required 10 days ' notice for participation , but 10,000,000 people employed in other sectors took part . |
3 | Ten clear days ' notice of the meeting will be given in writing to all persons concerned . |
4 | Twoflower had insisted on paying his first four days ' wages in advance . |
5 | Shop stewards have recommended accepting the offer of just under 9 per cent — worth £10 a week to most bakers — two extra days ' holiday by April 1991 to make five weeks a year , and other benefits , including better sick pay . |
6 | All had volunteered for the study and received two full days ' training before its start . |
7 | But the troops were already fatigued by an unremitting nine days ' marching on inadequate rations , and the communications and organization were so poor that no supplies could be brought up to them . |
8 | The application must state the grounds of the application and should be made to the judge or district judge who tried the proceedings and ( save with leave ) not more than 14 days after the trial and on not less than seven clear days ' notice to the opposite party . |
9 | The last two days ' scenes of disarray , including some fisticuffs , caused by the exclusion of far-right MEPs from the leadership of two delegations to foreign parliaments , are demeaning to the European Parliament , and bode ill . |