Example sentences of "after [adj] days ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After 2 days ' paddling and considerable suspense at last we reached the three corner point with Czechoslovakia/Hungary . |
| 2 | 2 After 2 days ' absence , supervisor should again try to make contact by telephoning or going to the person 's house . |
| 3 | It was as if a genius creator , after six days ' labour , had become uninterested in his achievement and had delegated responsibility for the rule and administration of his work to a band of bureaucrats — a tireless bunch of imbeciles , lacking compassion , who justified their role in the scheme of things by ceaselessly inventing trials for man , to keep him on his toes . |
| 4 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 5 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 6 | After 21 days ' culture there were 8.29 ( 0.74 ) ×10 6 cells in control cultures ( mean ( SEM ) ) . |
| 7 | After 21 days ' culture calcipotriol reduced the number of cells to 0.06% of the control value at 10 - 5 M ( p<0.01 ) , to 0.11% at 10 - 6 M ( p<0.001 ) , to 8.45% at 10 - 7 M ( p<0.001 ) , and to 94.10% at 10 - 8 M ( see Table ) . |
| 8 | Analysis by flow-cytometry of V usage by T cells from HIV-infected patients after 4 days ' stimulation with ETA , with antibodies against members of the V5 , V8 , and V12 families ( Diversi-T TCR , T Cell Sciences ) revealed complete lack of activation of the VB T-cell subset , whereas the V12 subset responded normally to the superantigen . |
| 9 | A strike by a majority of Bulgaria 's 21,000 miners , some of them fasting underground , appeared to have been halted when , on Aug. 22 , the men 's representatives agreed to negotiations after nine days ' action . |
| 10 | After five days ' walking they were obviously all fit and experienced . |
| 11 | the Arctic night , with no sunrise from 10 December to 3 January in these latitudes , tempted Admiral Hamilton to keep the strike force of eight destroyers and the cruiser HMS Arethusa in support of a prolonged visit , until a German bomb fell close to the cruiser , forcing the decision to withdraw after two days ' occupation . |
| 12 | The fourth reported death was that of Agit Salman , a taxi driver who was detained on 27 April and died in Adana Police Headquarters on 29 April after two days ' interrogation . |
| 13 | In the event , the document proved so unacceptable that after two days ' debate it was sent back for thorough revision . |