Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford travelled to San Francisco for two days with director Richard Lester to see a screening of How I Won the War . |
| 2 | Their first real taste of life on the road came in December when they stayed over after playing London and Brighton for four days . |
| 3 | CONCERN was growing today for a 13-year-old schoolgirl who has been missing from her home in Limerick for six days . |
| 4 | He visited North-East towns including Darlington , Barnard Castle , Durham and Middlesbrough for eight days for a study of regional manners commissioned by Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 5 | President 's rule , in force in Goa for 43 days , was lifted on Jan. 25 , when the leader of a breakaway group of the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party ( MGP ) , Ravi S. Naik , was sworn in as Chief Minister . |
| 6 | Thanks to the wonderful invention of fax machines , which enable my office to send me the proofs and layouts to read and check , I was able to slip away to Forest Mere Health Hydro for six days . |
| 7 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 8 | William Hazlitt 's visit to Somerset , so eagerly anticipated since January , began in fine summer weather towards the end of May.24 Having made the journey from Shropshire more quickly than he expected , he lingered nervously at Bridgwater for two days . |
| 9 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 10 | The agreement would allow 500 armed UN guards to be deployed in Mogadishu within 21 days with a brief to protect food distribution operations . |
| 11 | ‘ We had 23,000 people seeing our exhibition in Osaka in six days , and of course Wordsworth is taught at Japanese universities . ’ |
| 12 | CRACK batsman Brian Lara steered the West Indies to their second one-day win over Pakistan in three days in Port of Spain , Trinidad . |
| 13 | Mr Delors is expected to develop the theme when he gives a speech to the College of Europe in Bruges in 10 days . |
| 14 | On May 4 the FRY Presidency ordered its citizens ( i.e. of Serbia and Montenegro ) in the JNA to withdraw from Bosnia-Hercegovina within 15 days . |
| 15 | She 's in April , she and Anthony had been to Florence for four days . |
| 16 | We stayed in Nairobi for ten days , working with a Kenyan street evangelist , doing dramas etc . |
| 17 | The WISE bus roadshow was at Groves High School , Wrexham for three days . |
| 18 | Starting at Chester on Sunday , McGuigan will scuttle through Britain 's forests in his Vauxhall Nova for four days , chasing away the thought that he may lose every penny he battled for in the ring if his appeal against £450,000 libel damages plus legal costs fails . |
| 19 | SIR — A 43-year-old healthy Finnish man visited St Petersburg in Russia for 3 days during Easter , 1993. 12 h after he returned he became acutely ill with a sore throat . |
| 20 | MCC come to Downpatrick in early July for three days . |
| 21 | At the time of his arrest , he had been in Ireland for 10 days . |
| 22 | Two 16 day visits departing 16 June and 4 July with three days in Moscow followed by the cruise in a luxury liner ( all cabins with private bath ) through Moscow Volga canal and the Golden Ring to Uglitch , Yaroslavl , Kostroma , Plios , Kazan and Nizhni Novogorod . |
| 23 | If you need me , I 'll be in Chester within three days . |
| 24 | Is Well I was I 'm trying to think where I was I was at Blackpool , er I went to Blackpool for two days , I went with some friends . |
| 25 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 26 | On March 7 he had been suspended from the House of Commons for 20 days after the Commons select committee on members ' interests had on Feb. 19 upheld two allegations against him of failing to declare business dealings in the register of MPs ' interests . |
| 27 | It 's that kind of blind faith that forced Glenn Hoddle and his team into hiding this week … they took themselves off to Bournemouth for three days to prepare to psyche themselves up in secret |
| 28 | Within minutes of the disaster , Blairman 's offered me a desk and telephone , Mallett 's provided porters and storage for the 60 years ' accumulation which had to be out of Mount Street in two days . |
| 29 | If , for any reason , you then decide that you do not want Home Improvement Loan Protector cover , you may return your Certificate to NatWest within 14 days for cancellation without charge . |
| 30 | One particularly notable vessel which he designed was the Stirling Castle , famed for her speed , for example , when in 1882 she brought home a cargo of 6,000 tons of China tea from Hankow in twenty-eight days , beating the previous best time by more than a week . |