Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [vb pp] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even after being suspended 16 days ago , Mr Onanuga said he was certain Mr Lamont paid him £18.36 for three bottles of wine and two packets of Hamlet on the crucial Monday . |
| 2 | First he came across the reserve trenches a few hundred yards in front of the hospital tents , known as the ‘ hotel area ’ as they were a quarter of a mile behind the front line , where each soldier spent four days without a break before being allowed four days of rest in the reserve trenches . |
| 3 | There is another job to be done three days before opening night . |
| 4 | Or do n't girls wait to be asked these days ? ’ |
| 5 | Final pricing depends of course on how Sun eventually pitches its Tsunami offering , which is to be announced two days prior to HP 's roll-out . |
| 6 | ( 8 ) For the purpose of this rule : ( a ) pleadings shall be deemed to be closed 14 days after the delivery of a defence in accordance with Ord 9 , r 2 , or , where a counterclaim is served with the defence , 28 days after the delivery of the defence ; but in an action which has been transferred down from the High Court , pleadings are deemed closed 14 days from transfer . |
| 7 | It is only right for men to be admitted these days . |
| 8 | But there was worse to come , with Angela Rippon ( the outdoor girl who wishes to be known these days as an incisive reporter ) giving free , uncritical publicity to somebody called Di Francis who has written a book about mysterious , leopard-sized felines roaming Britain . |
| 9 | Gentle exercise is valuable too but needs to be taken most days in order to do us real good . |
| 10 | Though felt rugs are more likely to be traded these days than silk , a number of other commodities are on offer from wicker baskets and wooden cabinets to horses and , in the food line , even doughnuts and bagels . |
| 11 | Coal bosses want 24-hour working to be allowed seven days a week to boost productivity . |
| 12 | His show at Rome 's Trajan 's Markets opens on 20 May ( see p. 5 ) , with two editions of the catalogue from Fabbri Editoriale , Milan : an Italian edition , and an international one , to be published twenty days later with photographs of the forum installation . |