Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days [conj] weeks " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you should recognize is that it is a warning sign that you have been doing too much , and that you need to get away from the patient , at least for short periods in the day , if not for some days or weeks . |
| 2 | If anyone can be said to have had a ‘ finest hour ’ — although in this instance it was more a matter of finest days and weeks — it was the people of Fontanellato , and those for many miles around , who had showed such courage in helping the escaped prisoners without any hope or thought of recompense . |
| 3 | More surprisingly , sometimes a trough develops at about the same position , 15 degrees upstream of the mountains : and this pattern also persists for many days or weeks . |
| 4 | We read lot in recent days and weeks about refugees , mainly Vietnamese refugees . |
| 5 | Other members of the family may be able to share care by helping out on alternative days or weeks , or over a two day period once a month , so that you can attend a back to nursing course . |
| 6 | In the region of the trades — the south-easterlies ( between the equator and Capricorn ) and the north-easterlies ( to the north of the equator , up to the Tropic of Cancer ) — one can count on endless days and weeks of steady , 13-knot winds , a delightful lack of high humidity and temperature , and skies that are either cloudless or decorated with small white patches of flat-bottomed cumulus cloud , always poised a third of a mile above the sea . |
| 7 | ‘ I just hope that they 're not an indication of Irish troubles finding their way into Wales in the way they have in parts of England over recent days and weeks , ’ said Mr Wigley . |