Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The short-term effects are illustrated by an experiment in which sleep was restricted to five hours for seven days . |
| 8 | I was on tablets for two days and then taken off , just like that . |
| 9 | We could n't get out of our houses for two days . ’ |
| 10 | As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine . |
| 11 | ‘ Galleries and Private Collectors ’ brought together Czech , German and American gallery directors and art experts for three days of frank , and at times heated , debate . |
| 12 | The incident was not reported to the authorities for three days because , according to a company spokesman , its size had not been immediately appreciated . |
| 13 | Power stations produce electricity for our homes and industry , they 're surrounded by thousands of acres of wild land This wild land has developed into some of the nation 's most remarkable nature reserves For seven days a week , twenty four hour a day routine at the power station can provide unique and also surprising cover for all kinds of wild life . |
| 14 | However , few engagements were noted for the fighters for several days , although Sgt. Robertson saw three Bf109s above him on 20th. , but was unable to reach their altitude . |
| 15 | No not yet , it was started on Tuesday this week they have the books for ten days or something before they started on them . |
| 16 | He had lain in one of the lofts above the storehouses for several days , weak and sick after zig-zagging cross-country ahead of the hunt , moving by night in this foul summer , and lying up in woods and trees by day . |
| 17 | The need for repeated abdominal radiographs can be avoided by a modification of this technique and segmental transit can be measured from a single x ray film taken after the serial ingestion of rado-opaque shapes for three days . |
| 18 | ‘ There seems no objection to Premier League clubs switching games to all sorts of strange days and times , ’ said Mr Corfe . |
| 19 | They are deeply-felt songs of pioneering days ; for instance : |
| 20 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 21 | All offer trips of several days duration ; check carefully what you get . |
| 22 | That the classical wooden-bodied Pullman cars of earlier days had long since been split up and sold or scrapped was no deterrent . |
| 23 | He could remember so much , he had clear pictures of whole days spent at Ecalpemos , whole conversations recorded that could be rerun in his head . |
| 24 | The Aztec calendar had 365 days but these were divided up into 18 months of 20 days each , plus five ‘ unlucky ’ days . |
| 25 | Six months of 12-hour days , six days a week — that 's what it has taken to film the only four Wexford stories not previously adapted for TV . |
| 26 | Thirteen months of twenty days gave a cycle of 260 days that formed the core of the Maya almanac . |
| 27 | Besides the 260-day cycle ( or ‘ Sacred Year ’ ) the Maya had a solar year of 365 days , known to archaeologists as the ‘ Vague Year ’ , composed of eighteen months of twenty days each and five intercalary days . |
| 28 | The CBI said 166 million working days were lost through sickness in 1992 — with an average per worker in both the public and private sectors of eight days . |
| 29 | Those are days months with thirty days . |
| 30 | A seller would normally expect to receive the current market value of the units within fourteen days . |