Example sentences of "[conj] two days " in BNC.

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1 Far away , between the two copses , he could see the cherry tree where two days before he had sat with Blackberry and Fiver in the sunrise .
2 Perhaps you might even feel like not dieting for one or two days .
3 Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice .
4 For one or two days see the HCI Representative in your resort .
5 For in a day or two days you 'd just be returning the weary road for the funeral mass . ’
6 She too should find suitable work , and start with just a few hours , perhaps one or two days a week , before building up towards full-time work if she wishes .
7 Six-hourly subcutaneous injections of highly purified short-acting insulin usually meet the requirements and are continued for one or two days before the final transition is made to the patient 's customary insulin regimen .
8 Every few weeks I would get one or two days off duty to catch the ferry to Nanaimo and motor down the scenic Malahat Drive to Victoria .
9 The illness may progress over one or two days , but it can develop very rapidly , sometimes in a matter of hours .
10 Some large companies and local authorities provide pre-retirement courses , either by inviting specialist lecturers in , or by sending the employees on courses which usually last for one or two days .
11 If the cystitis is still troubling you after one or two days , see your doctor , who will be able to give you an antibiotic .
12 However , mass treatment in many countries involves distributing a five-day course of tablets which the recipients usually fail to complete because they often feel better after one or two days .
13 If you really enjoy the occasional drink , make sure it 's very occasional — an absolute maximum of 4 units a week taken on one or two days .
14 If you do n't have a ‘ fridge , put the food in the coldest place you can find and eat it within one or two days .
15 If you allow more than one or two days to elapse you may either lose your nerve , or find that you have missed your opportunity , or you might give the prospective employer the impression that you are not really interested .
16 Candidates who are involved in group interviews , which often stretch over one or two days , will also find themselves eating and socializing with their fellow candidates and assessors .
17 Fasting One or two days — when you drink plenty of clear fluids , but do not eat — is not harmful for most people .
18 Four knitting days ( or two days and nights for the favoured few ) are needed to knit a sweater .
19 If you have a sympathetic employer and GP you could see whether the person you care for would like to come to work with you but spend one or two days a week on a regular basis in a day centre run by the DHA .
20 After just one or two days a variety of shimp-like organisms appear .
21 Clearly there is considerable travel within the UK but we would expect you to spend one or two days a week in our offices so you would need to live within a 100 mile radius of Bracknell .
22 Z2033 remained on display at Duxford in its naval colours until September 1989 when Ken Evans and Herbie Church , two volunteers with the IWM , started work to tidy up the aircraft , working at the outset just one or two days a week .
23 Eight years later he was pleading that ‘ insane persons are occasionally and necessarily detained in the house for one or two days while arrangements are being made for their removal to the asylum ’ .
24 Four Minor Project schools were selected for closer investigation by the evaluation team and visited over a period of one or two days .
25 One day 's — or two days ' — filming will produce a great deal of film footage .
26 What is more , the incubation it needs is in any case one or two days less than that needed by its hosts ' chicks , so the young cuckoo stands a good chance of appearing before the legitimate chicks do .
27 For one or two days he sat down with me , and I tried to teach him .
28 We had to keep that clean suppo And they were n you you was working about six days out of seven , I got one or two days extra for not having clean harness I could you had n't got time to do it .
29 The clinics operated for short office hours on only one or two days a week and were not staffed to cope with disturbed and upset people who required help in a crisis .
30 Some tinies will find the pace busy , and will enjoy their evenings better if you pick them up early one or two days a week .
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