Example sentences of "about [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The estimation procedure allowed for a switch of regime in the parameters α , β and and such a switch was found for each contract about fifty days before expiration . |
| 2 | It is the second dairy breed of the country , strong in its constitution and sound in the feet , calving easily and with a gestation period about eight days shorter than that of the Friesian . |
| 3 | Recent evidence , presented by Primrose of Searle shows that genetically-engineered cells can change their character in ways not completely understood after about eight days continuous growth . |
| 4 | The puppies , which are about eight days old , were discovered by a busy road side . |
| 5 | Yeah , that come through quicker , come through in about eight days that . |
| 6 | Red blood cells in adult mammals only have a limited life span — about 120 days in humans — and are continually being produced . |
| 7 | Indeed , fog can overwhelm the city on as many as 15 days in a winter month , while that will happen on only about 2 days a month in summer . |
| 8 | The event , which should last about 30 days , will be run to International Classic Rally regulations , with entry restricted to pre-1969 models . |
| 9 | If any body governed Athens from day to day , it was the council of 500 , which met on about 300 days in the year , and which had , among other duties , the task of preparing the agenda for meetings of the assembly . |
| 10 | Normally a knight expected to serve for about forty days a year at his own expense ; the terms of his service might also be restricted — when and where he served , and for how long he would stay after the forty days if the king paid him . |
| 11 | Pied-fly 's arrive at the end of April from tropical Africa and are on the move again in July ; the short breeding season lasts about forty days . |
| 12 | Thomas of Marlborough took about forty days to get himself to Rome , riding fast and wearing out horses on the way . |
| 13 | Autumn : the vintage or harvest ( about 100 days after flowering ) . |
| 14 | He has about 100 days to begin to crank new reforms into action . |
| 15 | There is said to be a rough period of about 100 days , but I have never been able to confirm this . |
| 16 | The whole eruption probably lasted only about 100 days , but was long accepted as being responsible for the destruction of the Minoan civilisation on Crete , 60 miles away . |
| 17 | Harvest will be about 10 days behind last year on most farms in Scotland , reckons barometer grower Ian McLaren , of Fintalich , Crieff . |
| 18 | Between his becoming Prime Minister and his party 's fall in the polls about 10 days ago , Major did nearly everthing that common opinion wanted him to do . |
| 19 | The latter cycle takes about 10 days to complete , and successful transmission demands that female mosquitoes survive and take at least two feeds of blood during this time . |
| 20 | Uncommonly warm water in the area will allow the Lee to enter for about 10 days in September — if funds are available . |
| 21 | PSCs were initially absent from all the simulations but began to form first with doubled CO 2 just before day 20 ( 4 January ) and about 10 days later with current CO 2 For three of the simulations the area of PSCs reached a maximum at about day 50 ( 3 February ) before reducing rapidly to zero by early March , corresponding to the rapid increase in temperatures in Fig. 1 . |
| 22 | Within about 10 days she knew that when the phone rang at night it would be Tony , despite never having seen a phone before . |
| 23 | The ovipositor has been visible for about 10 days , and is more prominent in one fish than in the other . |
| 24 | The human baby 's sense of smell develops gradually , and after about 10 days an infant can identify the smell of its mother 's breasts . |
| 25 | Around this time his wage rate came to 2/3 a day , but he rarely worked more than about 10 days in any month , and in some months he did not work at all . |
| 26 | On Jan. 15 , 1990 , Centromín workers went on strike for about 10 days to demand improvements in wages and conditions and the release of Víctor Taype , the president of the National Federation of Mine , Metallurgical and Steel Workers ( Federación Nacional de Trabajadores Mineros , Metalúrgicos y Siderúrgicos — FNTMMS ) , who had been detained in Huancavelica since November 1989 on terrorist charges . |
| 27 | I 'll be back in about 10 days . |
| 28 | The ship deviated from the agreed voyage and arrived about 10 days late and in the meantime the price of sugar had fallen and the merchants lost over £4,000 . |
| 29 | The A174 between Ship Inn Bank , Saltburn and Coach Road , Brotton , will close to through traffic from April 22 for about 10 days for re-surfacing work . |
| 30 | The model predicts a lifetime of about 45 days for SO 2 , which is consistent with the observed SO 2 decay time ( 35 days ) . |