Example sentences of "[num] and [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 2 | The incubation period is between 2 and 10 days . |
| 3 | Treatment with corticosteroids was begun in each of these without success , with death occurring 105 and 53 days respectively after the onset of jaundice . |
| 4 | Menstrual cycles can vary between 22 and 35 days , 28 days being taken as an average , which is why it can be difficult for an individual to be sure when ovulation has occurred . |
| 5 | The unexpectedly long time between initial bleed and randomisation in the surgery and sclerotherapy groups ( 26 and 20 days respectively ) was caused by several factors : ( i ) If rebleeding occurred randomisation was delayed until stability for a minimum of five days and been achieved . |
| 6 | After the general election of May 12 , 1991 , Girija Prasad Koirala was sworn in as the new Prime Minister on May 26 and three days later he appointed a new Cabinet [ see p. 38193 ] . |
| 7 | Solid matter takes between 10 and 20 days to digest ( cattle waste takes longer than waste from pigs ) , and the size of the plant has to match exactly the input of slurry , which varies according to the season . |
| 8 | The periods of 7 and 14 days should certainly be amended to 14 and 28 days . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century , sailing ships or steamships direct from the United Kingdom took between eight and twelve days on the voyage from Southampton to Madeira . |
| 10 | The ideal inpatient stay was two admissions of three and two days ; no patient achieved this ideal , with the patient nearest spending four days in hospital on the first occasion , the delay in discharge being due to severe pain . |
| 11 | And she shall continue in the blood of purification three and thirty days ; she shall touch no hallowed thing , nor come into the sanctuary , until the days of her purification be fulfilled . |
| 12 | Compare the appearance of the potatoes after one , three and five days . |
| 13 | All subjects performed the experiment twice , separated by an interval of between three and five days . |
| 14 | Anywhere between three and five days . |
| 15 | His prints were sold next by Harry Phillips , auctioneer of New Bond Street , on 16 April 1798 and twenty-five days following . |
| 16 | A link-up with the western end from Kalgoorlie was finally made on October 17 , 1917 and five days later the first passenger train completed the historic crossing . |
| 17 | There are , on average , between sixty and eighty days of frost a year throughout the region . |
| 18 | One thousand and four days . |
| 19 | The new parliament convened on Nov. 27 ; King Hussein appointed Mudar Badran as Prime Minister on Dec. 4 and two days later a new Cabinet was selected . |
| 20 | Delivery for items is usually 3–4 days to cities in Europe , and between 4 and 7 days to destinations Outside of Europe . |
| 21 | Five who pleaded guilty have been sentenced to jail terms of between 50 and 60 days . |
| 22 | The ‘ top ’ three cases each appear on between ten and fifteen days , while no case above the ‘ top ’ five appears on more than three days . |
| 23 | Could be ten , between ten and twelve days , could n't it . |
| 24 | BELOW These chicks hatched two days apart — when this picture was taken they were 29 , 27 and 25 days old , but you can see the heart-shaped facial disc emerging clearly from the ball of fluff . |
| 25 | after nine and half days on the road the Central South team have made it … the first british car ever to complete the Solar Challenge |
| 26 | The Trust surveyed 83 species , and found that 33 are nesting between one and 22 days early , in a trend which started in the mid-1970s . |
| 27 | Since the length of the lunar month is about twenty-nine and a half days and a calendar month can not contain a fractional part of a day , it was arranged that the calendar months were alternately of twenty-nine and thirty days . |
| 28 | Valmontone — the castle with its lands , the palace and houses — was purchased in 1207 and ten days later Manases did homage for the fief to the papal chamberlain , Stephen of Fossanova . |
| 29 | Four of five patients with previous HBV and HDV infections developed serum HBsAg or HBV DNA , or both after transplantation after intervals of 14 days in two patients , and 60 and 90 days in two patients . |
| 30 | In a game that went to the fifth day only because many hours were lost to the weather — the actual playing time was two and two-thirds days — one was left wondering what he might have done had he been fully fit . |