Example sentences of "three days ' [noun] " 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 One of the best examples of a reasonably-priced winter weekend is a two-night stay at the three-star Le Bristol Hotel in Le Touquet , near Boulogne , with three days ' golf at the celebrated courses of Le Touquet , Hardelot and Wimereux , plus return cross-Channel Seacat travel with your own car , all for an incredible £145 a person .
3 But the question we must ask is why so many British workers are getting a two-week break when other European workers are making do with just three days ' holiday .
4 No he 's got three days ' holiday .
5 This 1pc increase will mean the highest earner will pay the biggest increase , for example a taxpayer earning £50,000 a year will pay an extra £500 , representing just three days ' pay per year for someone earning £1,000 a week .
6 After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody .
7 three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life .
8 Each enemy plane shot down brought the victor three days ' leave , and a palm-leaf to add to his ribbons .
9 There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search .
10 The only other case where there was the suggestion of an explicitly sexual motive and which had more than three days ' coverage was the murder of a 9-year-old boy which was reported in two national newspapers — the Daily Mail ( on three days ) ; the Daily Mirror ( on one day ) — and much fuller coverage in the local newspaper , the Lancashire Evening Post .
11 After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook .
12 Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole .
13 The smuggled letters take three days ' journey to Rabat from the prison : some never arrive .
14 Three days ' journey on into the desert are hurried over in a verse , and then the people run out of water .
15 Three days ' journey , four ? ’
16 The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year .
17 Benson died after only three days ' illness 5 July 1924 at his cottage , Castle Corner , in Manorbier , Pembrokeshire .
18 I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree .
19 They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax .
20 Thatcher gets £250,000 for three days ' work
21 The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour .
22 The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking .
23 Not a bad three days ' work all in all .
24 So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ?
25 One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper .
26 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 .
27 At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants .
28 I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from .
29 In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question .
30 If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch .
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