Example sentences of "[prep] two days ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |
| 4 | The curds of two days ' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed . |
| 5 | We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages . |
| 6 | I represented this city at Florence at the cost of two days ' leave , and having my pocket picked at the station |
| 7 | We will also establish a work programme , combining three days a week work for the unemployed — paid at the proper rate — with two days ' training and job seeking . |
| 8 | So we actually ended up with two days ' climbing . |
| 9 | The poem would arrive in two days ' time . |
| 10 | In two days ' time ( 7th May ) , it would be the forty-fifth anniversary of the final German surrender in the Second World War though the cease-fire was not to take effect until midnight on 8th May . |
| 11 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 12 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 13 | Gentle begged him to be a little more lenient , to which Klein said he 'd call Gentle 's studio in two days ' time , and if he received no answer would assume their deal was no longer valid . |
| 14 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
| 15 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
| 16 | In two days ' time , she thought , she would actually see him . |
| 17 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
| 18 | In two days ' time Matthew was off to New York . |
| 19 | Her best chance would come when they reached Ibiza in two days ' time . |
| 20 | That was in two days ' time . |
| 21 | So it 's not Saturday , like in two days ' time ? |
| 22 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 23 | At the Royal College , as an assistant in the School of Painting he earnt £425 per annum for two days ' teaching a week . |
| 24 | Stephen left a message , grateful for two days ' grace . |
| 25 | The two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority is worth £5,000 a year , for two days ' work a month . |
| 26 | Twenty one Welsh MPs have tabled a Commons motion protesting at the appointment of his secretary , Carolyn Jones , to a two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority worth £5,000a-year for two days ' a month work . |