Example sentences of "[coord] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.

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1 Some areas have day care available at weekends , or for long days so that a carer can go out to work .
2 The more energetic visitors , may be inclined to take a dip in the cooling waters of the lake itself and for this , or for leisurely days in the sun , the hotel provides a private lakeside sun terrace with sun-loungers .
3 One is to say that there are subtle differences which explain alleged inconsistencies , as for example between banning experiments altogether or after 14 days yet allowing later abortions .
4 The cause of the pain was attributed to gall bladder irritability , as it resembled the patients ' original attacks of biliary colic ; yet on cholecystoscopy at or after 10 days only one patient had appreciable mucosal inflammatory change .
5 Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) .
6 The balance is due for payment six weeks before departure or within 7 days of the invoice date , whichever is the later .
7 Of relevance here is the rule that a ballot for the Conservative Leadership must take place if the post is vacant , or within twenty-eight days of the beginning of every session , or between three to six months after the opening of every new Parliament .
8 The Department of Employment may serve a recoupment notice on the employer within 21 days of the end of the hearing , or within nine days after the decision is sent to the parties ( 21 days if the judgment has been reserved ) .
9 MATERNAL DEATH — death of a woman while pregnant or within 42 days of termination of pregnancy , irrespective of the duration and the site of the pregnancy , from any cause related to or aggravated by the pregnancy or its management , but not from accidental or incidental causes .
10 August 25 , or within three days after that . ’
11 I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days .
12 I normally get my tickets the next day , or in two days .
13 Apply suncare products even in the UK , in the shade or on cloudy days .
14 Alternatively , he or she may have a self-imposed rule not to drink before a certain time of day or on particular days , weeks or months or even years .
15 The story of the twins was well known in Fleet Street and it was really only a matter of hours , or at best days , before a newspaper decided to cash in on it .
16 Similar rules apply to loans and advances to credit institutions , with the additional categories of amounts payable on demand or at seven days ' notice and those payable within three months , although here where amounts are repayable by instalments each instalment is to be treated as a separate amount .
17 At Sight or at 90 days from sight etc .
18 Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
19 And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy .
20 Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet .
21 This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement .
22 She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother .
23 Paper has been smuggled from Croatia on horseback over the mountains which is very dodgy , and for two days Oslobodjenje was printed on blue and yellow paper as the white had run out .
24 A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean .
25 Mr Brannigan and Mr McBride were arrested in January 1989 and held for six days , 14 hours and 30 minutes and for four days , six hours and 25 minutes respectively .
26 Starting Monday and for six days , our panel of highly-qualified experts will take to the road in a bid to help YOU slim down and shape up .
27 But he had a fever , and for many days he lay there unconscious .
28 Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) .
29 John Storey , two , was rushed to hospital critically ill with stomach and throat burns and for several days doctors fought to save his life .
30 The Germans left with their prey , and no one knew if they were going to return , but all through the night and for several days more the orphanage was looted .
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