Example sentences of "[vb past] [num] day " 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 | Cells from passages 45–65 were grown on uncoated plastic coverslips and used 4–15 days after subculture . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Clough died at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary 27 August 1916 of injuries sustained three days earlier in a railway accident while examining rocks in a narrow cutting . |
| 5 | For example , woodwork , sewing and cookery were available at one centre only , which Contact visited three days a week . |
| 6 | At the Physic Garden Miller was equally brusque and Linnaeus found three days of tactful approach necessary to obtain the North American plants wanted for Clifford 's garden . |
| 7 | Kabul saw its quietest day since battles between the army and the Hezb-i-Islami erupted 27 days ago . |
| 8 | The most famous and best loved of all Sam 's wild pets was a swan which he found one day lying prostrate by the side of Hury Reservoir , too weak even to stand . |
| 9 | The attack occurred one day after three members of a Jewish guerrilla group , the Jewish Underground , had been released from prison after serving less than seven years of life sentences for murdering Palestinians [ see also pp. 33190-91 ; 34010 ] . |
| 10 | ‘ She was starin' at me so rudely , ’ Lou recounted one day , ‘ I very nearly said , ‘ Wait a minute , I 'll get a basin for your eyes ’ . ’ |
| 11 | Preparation work stopped one day for a tea party . |
| 12 | Although the Bonhomme Richard sank two days later , the Battle of Flamborough Head was an American victory , for the Serapis and the Countess of Scarborough were sailed back to France as prizes , and 504 prisoners were taken , including , a bitter blow for the Royal Navy , 26 officers . |
| 13 | I promptly forgot about the audition , considering it a waste of time , so was astounded when John phoned four days later to say I had passed the audition and would be hearing from Les Cox when he 'd decided which show I 'd be on . |
| 14 | Well that 's right cos they were thinking of erm , mind you they 've stop , they 've already parted and they stopped two days in and then |
| 15 | They trained seven days a week when it got really serious , ’ she said . |
| 16 | The formation of a National Maritime Board was announced on 23 November 1917 and standard wages for seamen announced six days later , recommending to the Shipping Controller £pound11 10s a month for able seamen and £pound12 for firemen , with proportionate increases for petty officers and seamen on weekly articles , backdated to 6 October . |
| 17 | The second , received eight days later , was typed and brief . |
| 18 | Guatemala had signed the accession protocol in April [ see p. 38259 ] ; formal membership came 30 days after the notification that ratification procedures had been completed . |
| 19 | Their release came 10 days after over 100 civilians had died in a crowded stadium in the capital , Mogadishu , when hecklers interrupted an address by Barre and called for his resignation ; his presidential guard reportedly fired shots into the air , then fired into the crowd , and a number of people were trampled to death during the subsequent melee . |
| 20 | The shooting of Sgt Newman came three days after two IRA bombs in London killed three people and injured 91 . |
| 21 | An abrupt end to the affair came three days later when refugees were awakened before dawn and taken to airports to be flown back to Albania . |
| 22 | Observers in Hanoi said that her release , which came three days before a visit to Vietnam by French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas , was a goodwill gesture towards France . |
| 23 | The attack came three days later . |
| 24 | The shooting itself caused three days of riots ; and although a racially mixed jury found Mr Lozano guilty of manslaughter shortly afterwards , an appeals court threw out the verdict because it thought the jury had been intimidated by the unrest . |
| 25 | His civil court appearance came ten days after another brush with the law . |
| 26 | In this calendar the year consisted of twelve months , each of thirty days except the eighth month , which comprised thirty-five days . |
| 27 | The Metropolitan Museum in New York , for example , proudly owned an early Greek bronze horse , which a sharp-eyed administrator on the staff noticed one day had a ridge . |
| 28 | And equivalent results have come from at least some studies using the conditioned suppression procedure ( e.g. Baker and Mercier ( 1982b ) , who compared intervals of 1 day and 5 days ; Hall and Minor ( 1984 ) , who compared 1 day and 8 days ; but see also Crowell and Anderson ( 1972 ) ) . |
| 29 | It suddenly seemed all rather a grand adventure , something I 'd one day soon be telling everyone about . |
| 30 | Teaching her all the domestic arts , Melissa reflected , in the hope that she 'd one day end up a housewife and mother in the true Italian tradition . |