Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The statistical resemblance is measured by comparing mean values and ranges of actual and simulated sequences , as well as looking at the distribution of runs of wet or dry days . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A general election would be held by the end of 1991 , or 120 days into 1992 if there was a delay in approval of the new constitution . |
| 4 | 2 in-house courses of 1 or 1.5 days each |
| 5 | At this stage the procedures are generally the same as for an ordinary cause and you have 366 days , or 367 days if it is a leap year , to ask the court for an extract decree to be issued . |
| 6 | This ‘ Drive it yourself ’ boat can be controlled by handicapped or able bodied passengers , and is available for hire for full or half days , seven days a week . |
| 7 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 8 | And those planning day trips at home face four miserable wet or windy days . |
| 9 | Regretting ‘ that he had no power to send him to prison without the option of a fine ’ , the magistrate imposed a fine of 40 shillings ( probably amounting to more than a month 's wages ) or twenty-one days ' hard labour . |
| 10 | By virtue of the Unsolicited Goods and Services Act 1971 the recipient of unsolicited goods is entitled in certain circumstances to treat them as unconditional gifts after six months from receipt , or 30 days from notice to the sender , so long as the sender does not in the meantime take possession of them and the recipient does not unreasonably refuse to permit him to do so . |
| 11 | If your stay in the new time zone is brief ( 1 or 2 days ) , then a substantial adjustment to it is unlikely . |
| 12 | A main remedy for croup , especially if it follows taking cold or exposure to dry cold winds I or 2 days previously . |
| 13 | For the few hours , the day or few days ' duration of the " event " , their labour force at the location in question increases many times in size . |
| 14 | If mixing causes difficulties , will the dementia sufferers gain from a segregated day centre or segregated days in a day centre or hospital , or will this merely put them at a disadvantage ? b Literature Arie ( 1979 ) states that we need to know more of the pros and cons of integration in day hospitals . |
| 15 | We 're not just playing a weekend game , but working five or six days a week , so there are bound to be problems of mental fatigue and photographers become stale and burned out . |
| 16 | An expedition , I should say , which I will undertake alone , in the comfort of Mr Farraday 's Ford ; an expedition which , as I foresee it , will take me through much of the finest countryside of England to the West Country , and may keep me away from Darlington Hall for as much as five or six days . |
| 17 | Indeed at secondary level the timetable of the week seems to blind one to considerations of the length of a course : the number of periods in a week or six days is debated , rather than the length of a period or the number of hours in a course . |
| 18 | The mothers were given milk-with-soya to drink for two days or soya only for two days — there was an interval of two , four or six days between the milk challenges . |
| 19 | At the risk of indelicacy , one would suggest that such a condition usually accounts for some five or six days of inactivity . |
| 20 | In some cases , the accompanying wall texts give details of the sittings : , the model for Euan Uglow 's ‘ Zagi ’ ( 1981–2 ) sat for five hours a day , five or six days a week , during a period from Easter 1981 to Easter 1982 . |
| 21 | Five or six days ’ march if we are lucky . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Minders ’ in Nidri in high season look after children between the ages of 4–13 during the shore week for parents who have booked a yachting course , or six days sailing or windsurfing . |
| 23 | About five or six days of the holiday you 'll sail away to visit hot springs , sandy beaches , the city of Bodrum , small villages or remote restaurants . |
| 24 | The shoot used to last five or six days in August but you did n't get paid when it was finished — do n't ask me why , but we had to wait until Christmas . |
| 25 | And then we 'll get you back onto them after five or six days , Gerald . |
| 26 | Even mums who have a Caesarean section leave after just five or six days at the most . |
| 27 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 28 | In the days before M and B , there was no 48-hour wonder cure ; the general would be confined to his bed for at least five or six days . |
| 29 | Five or six days . |
| 30 | I have a week or 10 days off and then gradually get back into it . |