Example sentences of "[adj] days ' [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trade terms will be 35% discount on orders of two copies or more per title , 20% on single title orders ; 30 days ' credit for orders of two or more copies per title , but single copy orders should be accompanied with payment by cheque . |
| 2 | In the course of the sequestration proceedings in the sheriff court he was sentenced to 30 days ' imprisonment for contempt of court , because he had entered the licensed premises and interfered with the management thereof after giving an undertaking that he would not do so . |
| 3 | His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days ' detention for absence without leave . |
| 4 | The public-sector and service industries had been unable to give the required 10 days ' notice for participation , but 10,000,000 people employed in other sectors took part . |
| 5 | Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole . |
| 6 | One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper . |
| 7 | Mr Silvers , however , had remembered the significance the visit would have for my father , and had thus called him in to offer him the option of taking several days ' leave for the duration of the General 's stay . |
| 8 | A court in Bootle sentenced Fields on July 11 to 60 days ' imprisonment for refusing to pay the community charge or " poll tax " . |
| 9 | Wendy and I saved up two days ' leave for New Year , and we decided to spend it with my cousin , through whom we had the marriage connection . |
| 10 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |