Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , he 's organised it Chris has had to go to work for two days this week . |
| 2 | Do you want to know about occasional days or you you 're presumably concerned with with full periods . |
| 3 | He turns his old head wearily , as if to indicate to his family the kind of people he has to deal with these days . |
| 4 | The hearing is expected to last for three days . |
| 5 | For every 1000 patients admitted to hospital with acute evolving myocardial infarction , about 100 can be expected to die within 35 days . |
| 6 | But the difference can not be more than seven days , since although the next financial year begins from the end of the last , it has to end within seven days of the next accounting reference period . |
| 7 | And it came to pass in those days , that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus that all the world should be taxed . |
| 8 | AFTER paying disability insurance premiums for six years , a 55-year-old part-time magistrate 's claim was refused because he failed to apply within 60 days of leaving his job . |
| 9 | Apparently in response to an appeal made at the Central American summit held in San José , Costa Rica , in December 1989 [ see p. 37119 ] , the FMLN on Jan. 11 , 1990 , agreed to reopen within 30 days peace talks with the government under the mediation of the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar . |
| 10 | We had one free day each week — any one of our choice — and we could also elect to work for twelve days consecutively and then have two days off . |
| 11 | She said we 're going to decorate on those days . |
| 12 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 13 | The ministers also agreed to shorten from 120 days to 30 days the payment period for buying in grain for EC intervention stocks . |
| 14 | He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days . |
| 15 | The inquiry , expected to last for four days , continues . |
| 16 | The ANC and the government are scheduled to meet for two days from Monday to finalise arrangements for the planning conference and to refine details of their bilateral agreements on transitional rule . |
| 17 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 18 | John Davies , secretary of the No Fazakerley Prison Action Committee , is confident protesters will win the public inquiry , which is scheduled to last for five days . |
| 19 | LEEDS manager Howard Wilkinson 's galaxy of stars square up to the ‘ Milky ’ way tonight with their season threatening to disintegrate inside six days . |
| 20 | For example , a purchaser of 9 1/2 % Treasury 1999 at £100 27/32 will in addition have to pay for 26 days accrued interest . |
| 21 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
| 22 | Dr Myerscough said he would not have let her go home without repeating the traces of the heartbeat or if she had gone home she would have been asked to attend on alternate days for check-ups . |
| 23 | The Russians watched all this with much amusement , and then sent an official protest note ( which the Foreign Office managed to lose for five days ) demanding an explanation . |
| 24 | A desert , Menzies thought , a wilderness where you might just manage to survive for forty days and forty nights , especially if there was an angel at hand to minister to you . |
| 25 | Lithuania 's Supreme Council ( parliament ) on June 29 voted to suspend for 100 days its March 11 declaration of independence in order for negotiations to be held with the Soviet authorities on Lithuania 's future status . |
| 26 | Maria replied that she was to be allowed to come for two days in the week following her letter . |
| 27 | Although all but 78 paratroop snipers were killed , the Australians were forced to surrender within four days , leaving the 2/2 Independent Company and some Dutch troops to carry on the fight 160 miles ( 257km ) to the east at Dili . |
| 28 | He said to me once , when he was driving me to school , that there was nothing left to believe in these days . |
| 29 | All she could seem to think of these days was the way Fen had kissed her , made love to her . |
| 30 | Those with mental health difficulties linked to alcohol tend to improve within seven days of abstinence . |