Example sentences of "[noun] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because Mr Reynolds has lost weight prior to admission to hospital and will have to receive bowel preparation for several days , it is agreed that he should commence a liquid diet . |
| 2 | All-Line Rail Rover tickets which offer unlimited travel on British Rail for seven days are £210 ( £340 first class ) . |
| 3 | The justices heard oral evidence , and after a hearing lasting more than six hours they deferred the statement of their decision and reasons for 10 days . |
| 4 | He also combed a little Grecian 2000 into his hair for several days before his date with Alison . |
| 5 | On March 29 in a session in camera , the judges of the court of Heliopolis , a Cairo suburb , decided to remand in custody the four defendants in the alleged Israeli spy case for 45 days pending further investigations [ see p. 38792 ] . |
| 6 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 7 | The impasse had resulted in California having no budget for 65 days , during which time the state 's authorities had been forced to issue more than $3,000 million-worth of " warrants " ( IOUs ) in order to meet payroll and other contractual obligations . |
| 8 | The 23-year-old is returning home to Bruhl in Germany for several days rest . |
| 9 | Lacking a majority in either chamber , he asked senators and deputies for 180 days of extraordinary legislative powers to launch an economic anti-inflationary plan ( details of which were expected to be announced in August ) , with the intention of restoring Peru 's relationships with international lending agencies . |
| 10 | The cost of four other policies for 14 days in Europe is £36 ( Abbey National ) , £39 ( Home & Overseas ) , £27.50 ( Nat West ) and £41.90 ( AA ) . |
| 11 | The four firms were also penalized by being forced to curtail their commercial activities for four days , held liable for tax due on the compensation payments , and fined by the Tokyo Stock Exchange . |
| 12 | Under the clampdown all Palestinians , including 50,000 day workers employed in Israel , had been prevented from leaving the Strip for 14 days , the longest quarantine period since the 40-day closure of the Israeli-occupied territories during the Gulf war in early 1991 . |
| 13 | I know she became somewhat lonely because her husband , although he was a very hard worker , would go off on a spree for some days at a time . |
| 14 | Rejoice in the Lord always , a great text for carefree days . |
| 15 | Noel 's Garden Party will be packing them in at Haydock Park for two days over the August Bank Holiday . |
| 16 | Crawford travelled to San Francisco for two days with director Richard Lester to see a screening of How I Won the War . |
| 17 | He has devised a vitamin and mineral supplement called Ultra-Detoxi for the Nature 's Best brand : £16.50 for 30 days ' supply . |
| 18 | By now , the case of Sumner v. Virgin had dragged on in the law courts for eleven days , with the two parties holding each other up in the centre of the ring like panting heavyweights , while the legal fees gushed forth like blood from the wounds . |
| 19 | I gave her another bottle of Arg Nit LM1 with less alcohol in it and she had an excellent response for 10 days , then the pains returned so she stopped the remedy and she was well for two weeks . |
| 20 | The letter from the plaintiffs solicitors in respect of question of interest one causes , the letter of the twenty ninth of January of nineteen ninety two , asking Mr to confirm , that in addition to the settlement figure of forty two thousand pounds in respect of costs he 'd be paying interest until the date of payment , and er , there was never a mind that erm which find a reply to in , in thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two by Mr , there 's no unqualified agreement in figure of forty two thousand pounds , I do not wish to appear obstructive but your clients must recognise that there are effectively two issues to be resolved , namely the payment of their costs and the division of the parts of other property , surely in all parties interest that none of these are resolved , so it is surely in all party interest that those , those are resolved contemporary and then the letter goes on to dealing with questions of valuation , the bottom paragraph on page thirty two in the bundle says in answer to your letter therefore is that there is no agreement to pay interest , if there is then my client must be credited with interest on his costs , and then it says surgery and finally if ove if overall agreement can not be reached then my client reserves his rights on the issue of costs and I feel that this could lead to an acrimonious and protracted taxation , at the end of the day I suspect it would only be enforced the order for costs about taking a charge in my clients interest in the surgery premises , does that improve your clients position at all , as I say that was the position of the thirtieth of March nineteen ninety two and during the remainder of nineteen ninety two there were then further negotiations , some of them appeared to have been carried out er personally between er doctor and er doctor which seems to of been the partner , dealing with the plaintiffs position and er he says about his non negotiable offer at page forty one in the bundle apparently attached to a letter of the twenty first of December nineteen ninety two and er that had a time limit on , the twenty second of March , there was a reminder on the twenty second of February and erm the plaintiffs solicitors wrote on the fourteenth of April nineteen ninety three raising the question of costs erm say that erm we have now received your clients instructions , that they would be prepared to accept the sum of forty two thousand in respect of their standard basis costs which is inclusive of V A T and disbursements , you remember that our initial schedule of costs which I set part of my letter of the eighth of October total fifty thousand , nine hundred and ninety eight pounds , twenty six pence , in addition to this our client would require interest from the which is as of todays date at seven hundred and sixty days at seventeen pounds , twenty six a day totalling thirteen thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds , sixty , in the circumstances I look forward to receiving your clients cheque for the sum of fifty five thousand , one hundred and seventeen pounds and sixty pence within the next seven days and then it says I believe you were certainly agreeing have been very patient concerning your clients costs , but now we wish these to be paid and that was responded to er Mr on the twenty second of April er but why he quite has not been directly involved in the conversation for some time and there was not reasonable expected response for seven days from him , er and then he goes on to say that although he appreciates his firm is still on the record , I shall seek instructions from my client , but it maybe he would wish to give notice of acting in person and indeed that is in fact what happened , what happened in this case . |
| 21 | The Local Government and Housing Act 1989 enacts this Provision though it substitutes 208 hours for twenty-six days and exempts employees who are elected to the chair of councils ( Clause 10 ) . |
| 22 | The short-term effects are illustrated by an experiment in which sleep was restricted to five hours for seven days . |
| 23 | Some heavy-duty buckets ( which were suitable for most purposes for which such buckets were normally bought or used ) collapsed when left by the buyer for several days stacked in extreme heat such that the contents reached 70° Centigrade ( 156° Fahrenheit ) . |
| 24 | They had been defending the building for 31 days and there was blood on the floor . |
| 25 | The squealing of the Cave Squigs echoed through the passages of Black Crag for several days , and Night Goblin Squig Hunters were sent in to retrieve them . |
| 26 | The Science and Engineering Research Council , currently a complete shambles because of underfunding , could be bailed out , thus Saving British Science , for precisely P£1 : milk for two days . |
| 27 | Training has been completed for the week , and the platoon which paraded for its Pass-Off today has now left the barracks for ten days ' leave prior to posting to various battalions in England , Ulster and around Europe . |
| 28 | We fly to Copenhagen on Monday on the 11.45 SAS flight from Glasgow , then catch the late afternoon flight to Bornholm to arrive in good time for dinner at Svaneke , our base for six days . |
| 29 | Reine was our base for several days . |
| 30 | Ricardo Weibel was seized and brought to the base for 12 days of rough treatment , before being released and sent home . |