Example sentences of "[num] days [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Annual leave is 22 days plus public holidays and 2.5 privilege days per annum . |
| 2 | After 30 days of aerobic walking and cutting down on fattening foods I had walked away half a stone . |
| 3 | A 57 year old man was referred for ERCP , 49 days after laparoscopic removal of a chronically inflamed gall bladder with many adhesions . |
| 4 | A decrease of PAI could be achieved within 2 days by transperitoneal dialysis . |
| 5 | Ricardo Weibel was seized and brought to the base for 12 days of rough treatment , before being released and sent home . |
| 6 | The circuit takes 12 days in total and can be walked in sections of two days or more , on high or low level alternative routes . |
| 7 | The circuit takes 12 days in total and can be walked using high or low level routes . |
| 8 | The consumption rate of ectotherm predators is equal to its own body weight every sixty days , and this contrasts with the mammalian rate of its own body-weight every 6.6 days for wild dogs , 8.0 for lions , and 10 days for cheetahs . |
| 9 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 10 | A dogwhelk 's tolerance of reduced salinity is probably low , despite Pelseneer 's ( 1935 ) statement that they can survive 9.5 days in fresh water ( Moore 1938b ) and Agersborg 's ( 1929 ) finding of living animals in freshwater pools at high water mark in Norway . |
| 11 | Of the 102 starters , 81 finished after six days of hard driving and intensive navigation . |
| 12 | The leaflet promised six days of intensive , action-packed skiing in Chamonix with Nigel Shepherd ( UIAGM ) , International Mountain Guide and Andrew Lockerbie ( BASI ) , a British Grade 1 Ski Teacher . |
| 13 | The government 's latest autonomy offer , which was expected to be endorsed by Barzani — the DPK leader — before the next round of negotiations , was made to a delegation of Kurdish leaders including Talabani , Nechirvan Barzani ( a nephew of Masoud Barzani and a leading DPK member ) , Sami Abdul-Rahman of the Kurdistan People 's Democratic Party ( KPDP ) and Rasoul Marmand of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan ( SPK ) , during six days of secret talks . |
| 14 | Six days of Sino-US talks in Washington on the protection of intellectual property rights ended in failure on Nov. 26 , the deadline for compliance with US demands [ see p. 38530 ] . |
| 15 | Owners of transport companies called off a nation-wide strike on Nov. 13 after six days of widespread disruption affecting bus , train and taxi services . |
| 16 | That was six days before Black Wednesday , when the Government 's economic policy collapsed in shambles and Britain quit the ERM . |
| 17 | A 39 year old woman was referred for ERCP , six days after uneventful laparoscopic cholecystectomy . |
| 18 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |
| 19 | But somehow he does get things done , and he has , after all , resisted the lure of the west up to a point — ‘ can I say that I could now fill 360 days with western offers and stay somewhere between America , Europe and Japan for an entire year ? ’ — to continue his own reconstruction work at the Maryinsky . |
| 20 | There are 10 days of accrued interest , 171 days until the next coupon payment and 10 years from the next coupon payment before maturity . |
| 21 | The UN relief airlift to Sarajevo , which continued under heavy siege for the seventh successive month — with the exception of 10 days of relative calm from Oct. 8 to 18 — resumed on Oct. 3 after a month 's suspension since an Italian aircraft was shot down [ see p. 39102 ] . |
| 22 | The eight-point accord followed 18 months of UN-sponsored peace talks , ending in 10 days of intensive negotiation in New York . |
| 23 | The agreement came after 14 months of negotiations [ see pp. 37849 ; 38140 ; 38671 ; 38761 ] and 10 days of intensive bilateral and trilateral talks in Washington between Trade Ministers from the three countries . |
| 24 | In three of the six subjects ( responders ) methane excretion showed a pronounced fall a few days after SO 4 was added to the diet , so that by 10 days with added sulphate methane concentration was less than 2 ppm in all samples measured in these three subjects . |
| 25 | IT 'S been a great 10 days for Scots living in England . |
| 26 | It was widely reported that armed police had besieged the state-owned Jerada colliery , which had been occupied for 10 days in late December 1988-early January 1989 by 400 miners . |
| 27 | The Welsh centre will be out for 10 days after bruising ankle ligaments , and his injury means the Lions have only one fit centre Jeremy Guscott after the injuries last weekend to Scott Hastings , who is returning home , and Will Carling . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | A 43 year old woman was referred for ERCP 70 days after uneventful laparoscopic removal of a shrunken gall bladder . |
| 30 | IRAQ and the United Nations wind up eight days of intensive arms talks today which envoys expect will produce substantial progress on long-term monitoring of Baghdad 's weapons potential , and could eventually lead to a lifting of the Security Council 's embargo on Iraqi oil sales . |