Example sentences of "[art] [adj] days ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An East German parliamentary committee yesterday dismissed a draft travel law , saying that the 30 days ' travel to be granted a year in no way met people 's expectations . |
| 2 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 3 | From the oast house we wandered back to the brewhouse where the copper boil was progressing satisfactorily and the previous days ' brews were frothing cheerfully away in their tall , cylindrical fermenters . |
| 4 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 5 | Feedback and evaluation of the two days ' work was made before the participants dispersed . |
| 6 | The thirty days ' standard he applies to his suppliers is the thirty days standard he expects from his customers . |
| 7 | There are charges on transactions , with a minimum of £30 for each six months , offset by a small allowance that varies with the seven days ' notice currency deposit rate . |
| 8 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 9 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 10 | His compatriot , Alexandra Ledermann 's Punition , who beat Navet in the Paris World Cup round but who had a difficult flight to Del Mar , looked much more at ease at the official horse inspection here , after a few days ' rest . |
| 11 | Crawford had been ordered to take a few days ' rest after pulling a leg muscle , but he was back after only a day , filming at the Piazzale del Faro . |
| 12 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 13 | More to the point , the affair earned Owen a few days ' breathing space . |
| 14 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 15 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 16 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 17 | With perfect bad timing Inge , the au pair , had left that very morning on a few days ' holiday , and tomorrow was Nettie the housekeeper 's day off . |
| 18 | L Detachment was thus judged ready for operations , and to wind down were given a few days ' leave to be spent in Cairo . |
| 19 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
| 20 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 21 | Miraculously , when invited for the Hunt Ball , he had asked if he might bring an old school friend who was staying with him , hiring horses for a few days ' hunting . |
| 22 | Robyn is rather less generous with the next supplicant , a young man who broke his ankle falling off his motorbike on New Year 's Eve , but even the least deserving candidate gets a few days ' respite , for Robyn tends to identify with the students against the system that assesses them , even though she is herself part of the system . |
| 23 | The news was relayed to the restive citizens that they had a few days ' respite . |
| 24 | Backpackers must make adjustments — quite easy to do with a few days ' walking under your belt , not so simple when your planning trips in your living room . |
| 25 | could you put me in touch ? ’ 'Sorry he 'll be back from America in a few days ' bingo . |
| 26 | And surely , nobody in his right mind would take a few days ' vacation and miss out on the opportunity of selling his own plans and proposals to the President of the Corporation ? |
| 27 | After his second retirement eight years later , he was again ‘ let down lightly ’ , by doing a few days ' work a month on market research . |
| 28 | Only after a few days ' exposure to New York sunlight did they readjust to local time . |
| 29 | After a few days ' rain the course was just right for the spectators anyway , plenty of mud . |
| 30 | When they stopped , sometimes at the junctions between seasons , Tallis could feel the flow of time , the great spiral storm that curled around some focus a few days ' riding to the north . |