Example sentences of "four days ' " in BNC.

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1 Use this where your employee is leaving and has had at least four days ' SSP in the last eight weeks of the contract .
2 He would not need above four days ' leave from them and since Oreste is now or will be by then nearly three which is the age Pen first travelled at I can not see any reason why he need inconvenience the party .
3 Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better .
4 The paper was four days ' old .
5 Some interesting areas , particularly in the extreme south of the region , could be reached by road after four days ' driving along the Andes .
6 Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling .
7 Only on the very clearest days , when the air was like the purest well-water , shadowy blots appeared to the west and north to show where the forest came to an end at hills , mountains … but they were a world away , two , three , four days ' journeying … if one dared .
8 Lorraine Allard had only had four days ' warning before leaving from Berlin :
9 In December it was arranged , without his knowledge , that Mr M would lose two of his four days ' teaching in the outer isles at the end of the academic year .
10 For himself , he would take Sir Alexander Ramsay with him , since he knew the Borderland intimately , and hoped to rejoin the main army in three or four days ' time , God willing with Balliol either prisoner or dead .
11 Clydesdale stores , with electrical shops in the Midlands , the North and Scotland , are currently offering four days ' bed and breakfast at any hotel in the Stakis chain for the price of one .
12 The offer means a couple can get four days ' bed and breakfast at the Stakis Newbury hotel for £108 .
13 The cost includes : return scheduled flights , private coach for transfers and four days ' use in the local area , ten nights at Hotel Zur Post , Illmitz , breakfast and dinner daily , tuition from Peter Partington , the services of a professional travel director , travel insurance , porterage and basic gratuities .
14 Just three or four days ' turkey and I 'm alright .
15 He had no ambitions to play Hook and certainly not at four days ' notice .
16 The 9,714 teacher-days spent in this way during the school year 1988–9 ( a threefold increase since 1985–6 ) reflect a very substantial investment of human and material resources , although it should be added that with about 2,400 primary teachers in the Authority the figures represent a rise from an average of only just over one day 's provision per teacher in 1985–6 to about four days ' provision in 1988–9 .
17 Twoflower had insisted on paying his first four days ' wages in advance .
18 After about two months ' work on the picture , including four days ' shooting , Ronald Neame — a veteran cinematographer , producer and director of British films — left , claiming too much interference from Zanuck .
19 In contrast to Montgomerie , Gilford , who won in Agadir with a nine-under-par 279 to retain the title , and runner-up Spence , who finished on 280 with Stephen Ames of Trinidad and Tobago , flew home well satisfied with their four days ' work .
20 He said : ‘ I play basketball twice a week and I had four days ’ notice that I was to get my chance , so I had four days ' practice .
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