Example sentences of "[prep] two day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frankfurt : The market gained ground after two days of losses , with the DAX index climbing 8.73 points to 1,612.78 . |
| 2 | After two days at home with my parents , I was again at the railway station , this time catching the early evening train to Fort William . |
| 3 | The nurse was an impostor who drugged the baby but was exposed after two days and sacked . |
| 4 | After two days Sheila announced truculently , ‘ I 'm not going to the university . |
| 5 | They were found after two days with the help of the police and brought home . |
| 6 | The vote for independence came after two days of acrimonious debate between the Lithuanian majority and the Russian Polish minority , who were joined by a handful of old-guard Lithuanian Communists . |
| 7 | After two days of almost non-stop rain , the first day was washed out completely , since the lakes dotted around the ground were not thought to be conducive to good cricket . |
| 8 | The rest day , incidentally , was taken after two days for the lovely Caribbean reason of avoiding a clash with a steel-band festival . |
| 9 | Wisden had some strong words to say about the fourth game , back in Trinidad : ‘ England put up a performance which exposed to the crowd of 21,000 what depths of incompetence they had reached … after two days off following the Test defeat , the first practice was made optional — and Gower himself was one of the six who failed to attend . ’ |
| 10 | The plan , whose passage through parliament remains highly uncertain , came after two days of hectic government activity and almost permanent crisis meetings following a currency outflow of £1.5 billion on Friday alone . |
| 11 | After two days of trying , however , the shares remained unsold last night and stockbrokers Hoare Govett have the problem of starting their attempted placing all over again this morning in the knowledge that if it can not be done today , holidays prevent them trying again until Tuesday . |
| 12 | The weather was fine after two days of rain , and over 400 spectators followed the match in the morning and 700 in the afternoon , many of them reaching Harpsden by push-bike . |
| 13 | Breastfeeding went very smoothly and was back to his birth weight after two days on the unit and one at home . |
| 14 | At the end of the nineteenth century , dredging for gravel began in the bay when extensions to Devonport 's naval dockyard were planned , and the sinking of the protective shingle beach left Hallsands exposed to the winter storms , which in 1917 were so severe that after two days only one house was left standing . |
| 15 | After two days they found him , an exhausted scarecrow of a figure hardly able to stand . |
| 16 | It looks rather splendid , but it attracted so much attention that after two days she took it all out . |
| 17 | After two days out from Newfoundland she had had to alter course for southern Greenland and the Arctic circle , the U-boat menace was so bad . |
| 18 | Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west . |
| 19 | If after two days , it 's still the same — go to see a practitioner . |
| 20 | So here we explain how you can complain effectively about anything , from a problem at the bank , an inflated gas bill or a TV set that breaks down after two days . |
| 21 | A shuttle service was provided after two days , just south of the crater , to Purley , using four of the unvestibuled cars stored in Purley depôt ; they were Nos. 1484 , 1741 , 1765 and 1776 , all standard ex-L.C.C . |
| 22 | After two days , Beattie 's trial was adjourned for eighteen days and then resumed for a further three days . |
| 23 | the Arctic night , with no sunrise from 10 December to 3 January in these latitudes , tempted Admiral Hamilton to keep the strike force of eight destroyers and the cruiser HMS Arethusa in support of a prolonged visit , until a German bomb fell close to the cruiser , forcing the decision to withdraw after two days ' occupation . |
| 24 | After two days of meekly walking behind him , Diana was determined to steal the show . |
| 25 | FILM cameraman Mike Benson , 42 , who is ‘ feeling pretty good ’ after two days trapped in a Hawaiian volcano , was told yesterday that his rescue is to be made into a film . |
| 26 | After two days McRae was two seconds ahead of the pack and a good bet for Britain 's first win in the Lombard RAC Rally since Roger Clark in 1976 — and the sponsors ' six-figure bonus . |
| 27 | After two days even the smallest decision could become an exhausting battle of wills . |
| 28 | The fourth reported death was that of Agit Salman , a taxi driver who was detained on 27 April and died in Adana Police Headquarters on 29 April after two days ' interrogation . |
| 29 | After two days which give them time to gain maximum strength they are taken back and released in the same areas as the eggs were collected . |
| 30 | After two days of feeding I release the fry into the tank ; the water is now similar to the jar water , and the temperature is , of course , identical . |