Example sentences of "even days " in BNC.
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| 1 | On even days it was the glossary . |
| 2 | On even days he whispered about the five different meanings of how 's your father and the etymology of knackered , Bob 's your uncles , and taking the piss out of X or Y . |
| 3 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 4 | Like other fellow scribblers whose squiggles seriously abuse the very title ‘ shorthand notebook ’ , I have nevertheless been generously given hours , sometimes even days , by sportsmen happy enough to rabbit on without so much as a penny piece being mentioned . |
| 5 | After some time though people begin to realize that they have spent minutes , hours , even days , without consciously thinking of the person who has died . |
| 6 | Uncomfortable feelings absorbed from those who seek our help ( and that includes simply offering a sympathetic ear ) , can linger for many hours or even days — unless we learn how to dissipate such feelings . |
| 7 | From the moment of entering the Workhouse the expectation of life for most was a matter of weeks or even days . |
| 8 | In its strongest form , at the perception of a new and beautiful poetic or religious idea , mystics and seers will fall into a trance and remain in it for hours or even days . |
| 9 | Having achieved orgasm , many men find later in life that the interval before the next erection increases to hours , or even days ; but this is no reason for abandoning sexual activity . |
| 10 | For example , the researchers set up the apparatus hours and even days before they took the final readings . |
| 11 | The time needed to reach a solution to a problem is much longer ( i.e. it could take several hours or even days ) than the implementation/repair ( i.e. replacing a module or a board/panel can take only 30 minutes ) . |
| 12 | I could now forget Bill for hours , even days , then one sniff of wet plaster and I went straight back to Marcus Small Ward Two . |
| 13 | With the 401st Bomb Group continuing their dials missions , a brief respite cam e to Dan and his crew as Mary Alice underwent repairs , until just even days later when they flew to the marshalling yards south of Paris on June 4 . |
| 14 | The vast majority of chromosomally unbalanced mouse fetuses die between day 6 and IS ( 8 ) and mitotic activity often decreases several hours or even days prior to the event . |
| 15 | Those that do may only display the differences for a matter of weeks or even days before the whole crop ripens , so there is an element of luck in flying over the right place at the right time . |
| 16 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 17 | Several sailors have spent hours and even days under investigation by the Drug Squad after herbs in plastic bags or unmarked containers had been discovered on board . |
| 18 | Parson thought this was ridiculous , but he realized that even days before he would flee , the Shah was unable to acknowledge that power had slid from him like snow from the mountains in spring . |
| 19 | These long-term priming effects are explained , within the logogen model , by assuming that after threshold has been reached activation dies down rapidly at first over a period of a second or so , but does not quite reach the normal resting level : there follows a long period during which there is very slow decay of residual activation — a period measured in hours or even days . |
| 20 | Minutes were felt to be factors in these results , whereas in the Potteries hours , or even days at times , were hardly felt to be such factors . |
| 21 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 22 | The onset of depression usually followed a severe event quite rapidly — within a matter of weeks and sometimes even days . |
| 23 | Is it not possible for the media to get some kind of award organised , say if a newspaper or TV station succeeds in not showing Mr Bell for several years , weeks or even days ? |
| 24 | He was one of the lucky ones , some had to wait hours , even days , he said . |