Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Chief of Staff of the Air Force , Vice-Marshal Momtazuddin Ahmed , confirmed publicly for the first time on May 10 the claim made eight days earlier by the head of the opposition Awami League Sheikh Hasina Wajed that there had been extensive damage to the country 's small fleet of aircraft . |
| 2 | Outdoor centre staff given eight days ' warning on jobs |
| 3 | Section 2 Objective 3 of the Society 's Development Plan states : — ‘ To maximise attendance at and geographical cover of event ’ and to this end we would like to see some days organised regionally or in areas to incorporate a Study Day with or without a public recruiting session . |
| 4 | TTX was injected into the right eye of P10 rats and both optic nerves were examined 2 days later , as described in Fig. 1 . |
| 5 | A player joining a new club during the close season or after the season starts will have to wait 30 days if joining a club two leagues higher or lower before he plays for that club in a Courage league game or 120 days if joining a club on the same level or one league higher or lower before he plays for that in a league game ; he waits 180 days if he is not a British passport holder . |
| 6 | Strathaven-based Yuill and Dodds , which was due to have its licence suspended for seven days from midnight on Sunday , has been given 49 days ' grace to decide whether to appeal against the decision . |
| 7 | The PLO escorted the British through west Beirut and they were replaced at Khalde by Major Hassan Kassar of the Libyan army , a reconnaissance officer for a Libyan-sponsored Arab League peace force that disintegrated some days later . |
| 8 | November had been a damp and drizzly month , bringing shorter days and causing aggravation to those people who found it increasingly difficult to travel in the blackout . |
| 9 | It 's we it it 's I mean some days are better than others . |
| 10 | If you lose 2 days work you will qualify because there are 6 days in the social welfare week and you are now unemployed for 3 of them . |
| 11 | She recovered well and was discharged eight days later . |
| 12 | The rich tend to work 18-hour days , and some of them burn themselves out at bond desks and on trading floors before they are 30 . |
| 13 | Originally , the Romans had a complicated system of dividing the month , with Calends ( from which our word ‘ calendar ’ is derived ) on the first , Ides on the fifteenth of March , May , July , and October and on the thirteenth day of the other months , and Nones occurring eight days before the Ides . |
| 14 | Most people say 30 days because the man travels at 10 miles a day . |
| 15 | Cells from passages 45–65 were grown on uncoated plastic coverslips and used 4–15 days after subculture . |
| 16 | He made steady improvement and was discharged 12 days after admission . |
| 17 | A copy of the report must also be sent to him at the same time that it is sent to the Secretary of State , and he then has twenty-one days in which to decide whether he will ask for a review board to examine the whole matter in public . |
| 18 | The creditor then has twenty-one days in which , if he so wishes , to revalue his security ( subject to r 6.115 ) . |
| 19 | The Times , like the Guardian , has different days for different types of jobs . |
| 20 | Even if unemployment is only part of the problem , it seems to me that the man who can busy himself cutting peats , or growing crops , or handling stock , is less likely to be depressed , less likely to feel that his life has no meaning , than a man who has empty days to fill in the back streets of an industrial town |
| 21 | Exxon has 30 days to consider its next step . |
| 22 | Bright clear days when the Alps can be seen are rare , ( and the more pleasurable for being so ) , and if you want such days you had better come in spring or autumn when the heat haze is reduced . |
| 23 | ‘ Nothing 's changed for Mrs Kitchener , other than — the family who support her , the two daughters are still at war — Mrs Kitchener now has six days a week day care … |
| 24 | Demirel was permitted 45 days in which to form a new administration , failing which President Turgut Özal would have the option of calling a fresh election . |
| 25 | If the local authority decides to grant consent , the Secretary of State has twenty-eight days to consider whether to call in the case and decide for himself . |
| 26 | LIN now has 45 days to decide whether to buy the balance of the franchise . |
| 27 | The milk restriction was lifted 44 days after the accident when the radioactivity levels fell to an acceptable level ( iodine-131 has a half-life of 8.1 days ) . |
| 28 | The Cabinet has 10 days before Chancellor Norman Lamont sets out its economic strategy in his autumn statement in the Commons . |
| 29 | A dogwhelk 's tolerance of reduced salinity is probably low , despite Pelseneer 's ( 1935 ) statement that they can survive 9.5 days in fresh water ( Moore 1938b ) and Agersborg 's ( 1929 ) finding of living animals in freshwater pools at high water mark in Norway . |
| 30 | The leaflet promised six days of intensive , action-packed skiing in Chamonix with Nigel Shepherd ( UIAGM ) , International Mountain Guide and Andrew Lockerbie ( BASI ) , a British Grade 1 Ski Teacher . |