Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For shifting material with a horse and cart James Bell was paid £1 : 12s. : 0d. for eight days ' work . |
| 2 | He has devised a vitamin and mineral supplement called Ultra-Detoxi for the Nature 's Best brand : £16.50 for 30 days ' supply . |
| 3 | After 2 days ' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary . |
| 4 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 5 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 6 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 7 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 8 | After 21 days ' culture there were 8.29 ( 0.74 ) ×10 6 cells in control cultures ( mean ( SEM ) ) . |
| 9 | After 21 days ' culture calcipotriol reduced the number of cells to 0.06% of the control value at 10 - 5 M ( p<0.01 ) , to 0.11% at 10 - 6 M ( p<0.001 ) , to 8.45% at 10 - 7 M ( p<0.001 ) , and to 94.10% at 10 - 8 M ( see Table ) . |
| 10 | After previous days ' lovely weather , disappointed that visibility was poor and it rained most of the time . |
| 11 | Analysis by flow-cytometry of V usage by T cells from HIV-infected patients after 4 days ' stimulation with ETA , with antibodies against members of the V5 , V8 , and V12 families ( Diversi-T TCR , T Cell Sciences ) revealed complete lack of activation of the VB T-cell subset , whereas the V12 subset responded normally to the superantigen . |
| 12 | I carried out stone from the cave , and after many days ' hard work I had a large cave in the side of the hill . |
| 13 | At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences . |
| 14 | A strike by a majority of Bulgaria 's 21,000 miners , some of them fasting underground , appeared to have been halted when , on Aug. 22 , the men 's representatives agreed to negotiations after nine days ' action . |
| 15 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 16 | Some interesting areas , particularly in the extreme south of the region , could be reached by road after four days ' driving along the Andes . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 20 | Plates were examined for growth after seven days ' anaerobic incubation at 37°C . |
| 21 | Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net . |
| 22 | His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days ' detention for absence without leave . |
| 23 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 24 | Early redemption of a loan carries a penalty of 90 days ' extra interest , except during the first year of the five year deal , when an additional 150 days ' interest is levied . |
| 25 | We tell ourselves that it 's something we should be starting on " one of these days ' . |
| 26 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 27 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 28 | In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave . |
| 29 | Approved social workers under the Act would require specialist training and an appraisal of their competence , and the central council for education and training in Social Work ( CCETSW ) insists upon a minimum of sixty days ' training culminating in formal examinations . |
| 30 | All have now done an average of ten days ' sailing aboard British Steel Challenge and are being given what is termed ‘ continuation training ’ . |