Example sentences of "of [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus when endothelium was stripped from rabbit aorta in vivo prostacyclin production at the luminal surface of the vessel was virtually absent and recovery of prostacyclin production was slow over a period of 70 days coinciding with the appearance of neointimal cells ( Eldor et al , 1981 ) . |
| 2 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 3 | 15 DAYS OF MOVEMENT AND DANCE Medau will be represented at a number of multi-movement days promoted by GL&SE Sports Council in conjunction with local authorities . |
| 4 | ‘ There seems no objection to Premier League clubs switching games to all sorts of strange days and times , ’ said Mr Corfe . |
| 5 | 2 internal courses of 1.5 days each , plus development of induction materials and of the induction process as a whole |
| 6 | 4 internal courses of 1.5 days each |
| 7 | Hitherto the provision had been for the Speaker to become interim president , with the obligation to organize elections within a period of 45-60 days . |
| 8 | It has the rather unusually long period of 547 days . |
| 9 | Poor public response prompts BT to cut number of cheap-rate days . |
| 10 | THE number of cheap-rate days for telephone users is to be cut from eight to five next year because not enough people took advantage of it , British Telecom announced yesterday . |
| 11 | It has a period of 409 days , and a very large range , from slightly above magnitude 6 at maximum down to almost 15 at minimum . |
| 12 | Interesting to have seen that young sneak thief about in the hotel , Lord Boddington switched thoughts , disturbed by memories of unhappier days . |
| 13 | Mr Reid , who is prevented from taking part in one of the highlights of his season by the excellent displays on Saturday of Steve McMahon and Fitzroy Simpson in central midfield , knows that victories over the top three teams in the space of eight days — City travel to Hillsborough on Saturday — will raise hopes of his men claiming third place . |
| 14 | The FA , faced with fixture congestion with a gap of eight days between each match , reluctantly agreed that Cup ties would be decided by penalties after one replay . |
| 15 | The CBI said 166 million working days were lost through sickness in 1992 — with an average per worker in both the public and private sectors of eight days . |
| 16 | He left on Thursday 1 May and there was a comparatively light raid that night , but it was the start of eight days and nights which would never be forgotten in Liverpool . |
| 17 | During a recent holiday in Kalimantan ( Indonesian Borneo ) , proposed one-night stay in Pontianak on the west coast degenerated into a forced stop of eight days , due to the closure of the airport because of smoke pollution . |
| 18 | ( 7 ) There are special provisions which apply to tenders on the London Stock Exchange ( reg C7 of the Stock Exchange Regulations ) , ie the London Stock Exchange normally only permits " maximum price " tenders , all acceptances must be channelled through Stock Exchange Member Firms rather than direct applications from the public , the offer must be kept open for a minimum of eight days , and the London Stock Exchange imposes detailed procedural and content requirements . |
| 19 | But yet again the mercurial Maryhill men were transformed in the space of eight days from uninspired lethargy to inventive industry . |
| 20 | A problem concerning time and the calendar that has attracted much attention in recent years is the precise date when the Iranians adopted the Egyptian ‘ vague ’ , or civil , calendar of 365 days . |
| 21 | Besides the 260-day cycle ( or ‘ Sacred Year ’ ) the Maya had a solar year of 365 days , known to archaeologists as the ‘ Vague Year ’ , composed of eighteen months of twenty days each and five intercalary days . |
| 22 | The Julian calendar established a year of 365 days with an extra one ( 24 February was repeated ) every fourth year to rectify the difference between calendar and solar years , which contained 365¼ days . |
| 23 | Thus this year is ambiguous between the calendrical unit that runs from January I to January I and which includes CT , and the measure of 365 days that begins on the day including CT . |
| 24 | Forming a group with them is the Mira variable R Leonis , which has a period of 312 days . |
| 25 | Premature birth may be caused by a number of factors or by no apparent cause , while one pregnancy of 334 days has been recorded . |
| 26 | In many , the enclosure award of Georgian days was only the final clearing-up of remnants of open field that survived after piecemeal enclosure had been going on for generations or even centuries . |
| 27 | A total of 169 days merited health warnings in 1989 . |
| 28 | At a time when his life was unsettled and the future uncertain , he returns to the world of his childhood and , in the course of the poem , meditates upon the need for release from the wheel of time itself , " the trailing/Consequence of further days and hours " . |
| 29 | The sense of uselessness and the boredom of empty days , the abrupt , often humiliating change of status from worker to ‘ old age pensioner ’ , can lead to severe depression and consequent physical and mental deterioration . |
| 30 | The combination of high precipitation , water surpluses , large number of wet days and low insolation experienced in highly oceanic areas is thought to increase the rate of growth and the competitive abilities of bryophytes , notably Sphagnum species , hypnoid mosses and Racomitrium ( Poore & McVean 1957 ) , all of which are very conspicuous in plant communities in the Western Isles . |