Example sentences of "[num] days ' [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It will include the personal weapon , three days ' rations and ammunition , along with as much water as can be carried , and also nuclear , biological and chemical warfare equipment , since the enemy is known to have a chemical weapons capability . |
| 2 | However , since menstrual cycles can be irregular First Response has a refill kit to enable a further three days ' tests , which allows nine out of 10 ovulating women to detect their surge . |
| 3 | Orders were sent out to rearm them , to neutralise the demolition mines , and infantry garrisons were despatched complete with fourteen days ' rations and solemn instructions never to capitulate . |
| 4 | I concluded my own column of that week as follows : ‘ After sneering at Lord Mogg , I suppose I should commit myself to a conclusion of my own from the last ten days ' dramas . |
| 5 | The last two days ' scenes of disarray , including some fisticuffs , caused by the exclusion of far-right MEPs from the leadership of two delegations to foreign parliaments , are demeaning to the European Parliament , and bode ill . |
| 6 | We can only guess whether inter-racial bickering — or even rows over bad food ! — might explain such a bizarre two days ' events . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Twoflower had insisted on paying his first four days ' wages in advance . |