Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] for [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | She were only poorly for three days . ’ |
| 2 | oh the timetable which I as well will , will erm , would be about two months , the first step has to be taken by the defendant because we do n't know yet whether they are prepared to oppose the structure , and if so , what sort of structure they would be prepared to oppose , erm , if and when , er a formal offer of structure came through , I would have little doubt that we could instruct accountants and get a response within a matter of weeks , sometimes one has to if they 're doing an commercial structure within a week or so because the offer is only open for ten days |
| 3 | Avoidance involves allowing cell sap to concentrate , so reducing its freezing point ; in this way frost-hardened plants may remain ice-free and physiologically active for many days at temperatures well below 0°C . |
| 4 | so , if you normally work a five day week and lose a day 's work you will not get UB for that day because you are not unemployed for 3 days of the social welfare week . |
| 5 | Me , like I mean , that 's got now , my age , I 'm not fit for three days ! |
| 6 | Treatment with 5 or 10 mg/kg cyclosporin A once daily for eight days resulted in blood concentrations of 401 ( 88 ) ng/ml and 1353 ( 145 ) ng/ml , resp , 24 hours after the last dose . |
| 7 | The rage burned a week , after which she fell totally silent for three days ; a silence broken by a grief like nothing she 'd ever experienced before . |
| 8 | As part of a larger study in which asthmatic outpatients were told that assessments were being evaluated , 24 asthmatic patients ( not experienced trialists ) completed a paper and pencil diary and the Asthma Question Box at home , twice daily for 14 days . |
| 9 | Commencing five days after induction of colitis and continued twice daily for three days until day 8 , the rats received by intragastric instillation either Kaopectate ( 105 mg kaolin , Upjohn Ltd , Crawley , UK ) Medicoal ( 25 mg activated charcoal , Lundbeck Ltd , Luton , UK ) , terra fullonica ( 300 mg hydrated aluminium silicate , ICI Pharmaecuticals , Wilmslow , UK ) , or tap water ( disease controls ) . |
| 10 | At the head of a small cavalry force he rode almost non-stop for two days and nights and on 12 February he fell upon Aimar 's routiers as they attacked the church of Gorre a dozen miles to the west of Limoges , believing him to be still somewhere beyond Poitiers . |
| 11 | But the most remark able thing about him was his hair , unusually long for those days , and abundant — of the palest , curly blond , exactly the moonlight platinum colour of my own hair when I was a little boy . |
| 12 | I 'm usually very sore for two days after a race . |
| 13 | Grouse " potted whole , stowed singly into pots with clarified butter poured over " as described by Professor Saintsbury ( the old boy did n't miss much ) are infinitely enticing , exceedingly extravagant with butter and not very practical for these days , but you can make one young cooked grouse or partridge go a very long way by the simple method of chopping the flesh , freed from all skin and sinew with about one quarter of its weight in mild , rather fat , cooked ham . |