Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , after flying into one village , we travelled downstream slowly for four days , sleeping on sandbanks as the river was low . |
| 2 | I 've been going downhill for several days now . |
| 3 | In a larger study assessing endurance over nine days under different levels of sleep loss , the APRE reported that with no sleep at all soldiers could only operate effectively for four days , while with I.5 hours ' sleep a day 50 per cent of a platoon lasted nine days in the field , and nearly all of a platoon allowed 3 hours sleep completed the nine-day exercise . |
| 4 | The inquest went on for many days and it had all the appearances of the public inquiry that was to follow . |
| 5 | He carried on for two days but finally , in excruciating pain , had to go to hospital when a splint was put on his damaged limb . |
| 6 | The battles went on for four days that August and at least thirty-four people were killed . |
| 7 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 8 | ‘ The feasting would go on for seven days . |
| 9 | The conference will go on for 3 days . |
| 10 | After pitching their tents , the travellers held a rave party that went on for 3 days and nights . |
| 11 | The process goes on for several days , a few polyps occasionally expanding briefly , until finally the coral returns to its former glory . |
| 12 | I keep it on for several days . ’ |
| 13 | There had been no handkerchieves for him to work on for several days and there was not very much to eat for dinner . |
| 14 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 15 | Despite soldiering on for three days she finally admitted defeat when frostbite of the labia majora forced her to abandon the job . |
| 16 | Yes , this went on , it went on for about er three days , it went on for three days . |
| 17 | If the adventurers have n't buried the bodies properly after seven days the Ghost will attack them , convinced that they were lying . |
| 18 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 19 | This wonderful new slimming aid includes three meals a day and there is enough for four days . |
| 20 | Enough for several days . |
| 21 | Smart and acceptable for city wear but soft enough for relaxed days |
| 22 | But it 's awful , sir , not eating much for three days . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Bearing in mind that these clients were ‘ at risk of residential care ’ , most received only one or at the most two services , and then only for certain days in the week ( p. 299 ) . |
| 25 | The four patrols planned by Stirling were sent out , but only for four days . |
| 26 | But only for 60 days . |
| 27 | He used to go to Goose Fair , and all the fairs , whatever they was , but it was only for three days . |
| 28 | So during windy days you do better working burrows with entrances unaffected by wind . |
| 29 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 30 | In another disruption to the troubled plant 's operation , Kozloduy 's second reactor was shut down for six days in early January after an escape of radioactive material from the central circulation pump . |