Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm and I mean I 've had a recent bereavement , I mean I , I lost my mum at Christmas and got three days leave . |
| 2 | Cells from passages 45–65 were grown on uncoated plastic coverslips and used 4–15 days after subculture . |
| 3 | In particular if notice of an application for such an order has been given he may : ( a ) strike out the claim or defence if they show no reasonable cause of action or defence and enter judgment ( Ord 13 , r 5 ) ; ( b ) where £1,000 or more is claimed , upon submission of affidavit evidence proving the facts ( and proof of service of the application , copy affidavit and exhibits seven days before ) , enter summary judgment in a default action where there is no real defence . |
| 4 | Will you just stop fretting and arguing and imagine ten days in the balmy tropical climate of the Eastern Caribbean Windward Isles ? |
| 5 | This superstition harks back to when a drunken trooper inadvertently cursed the Mauthe Dhoog , only to be struck dumb and die three days later , a fan referred to by Sir Walter Scott in his Lay of the Last Minstrel : |
| 6 | He was found to be highly contagious and received 37 days of in-patient treatment . |
| 7 | A new rule published on 31 March in the Federal Register exempts the crops from the long process required for a permit and allows biotechnology companies to carry out experiments with corn , cotton , tomatoes , soybeans , tobacco and potatoes after notifying USDA in a letter and waiting 30 days . |
| 8 | Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John 's father . |
| 9 | Scott 's letter was long , rambling and almost cringing in tone ; nevertheless , Palmerston read it and replied five days later with a not unfriendly letter in his own hand . |
| 10 | The Quebec premier , Mr Robert Bourassa , condemned the killings as a ‘ barbaric carnage ’ and declared three days of official mourning . |
| 11 | The Quebec premier , Mr Robert Bourassa , condemned the killings as a ‘ barbaric carnage ’ and declared three days of official mourning . |
| 12 | At the same time thousands of angry and grieving demonstrators defied the state of emergency and gathered outside the Azerbaijan Supreme Soviet building , where the Presidium President , Elmira Kafarova , issued a statement denouncing the military action and declared three days of national mourning . |
| 13 | The Helsinki embassy charges a 100 Finnmark fee ( £12 ) and takes two days , but this is considered quick . |
| 14 | They stayed at a friend 's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion . |
| 15 | That 's why it is always best to pay in full if you possibly can and get 56 days ' interest-free credit . |
| 16 | My first real contact with the military was when I went on a familiarisation course to the Parachute Regiment depot at Aldershot when I was fourteen , and spent two days living in the mess , where I looked around the regiment , met serving officers and had some basic interviews with retired Colonels , who were in charge of selecting the future leaders of the toughest regiment in the Army outside of the Special Air Service . |
| 17 | Bored , I ran away from Downside when I was sixteen and spent two days in Paris , sleeping rough , before hitch-hiking home . |
| 18 | Phil and Margaret developed a slide presentation on business plans and spent two days at the St Robert of Newminster Secondary School helping students make their own plans . |
| 19 | A dozen of them travelled to west Cumbria at the invitation of BNFL News editor Steve Howarth , who is also a Northern region committee member , and spent two days as guests of BNFL . |
| 20 | Although one of the sons suffered severe injuries such as a black eye and damage to his kidney and spent 5 days in hospital it took the police over 6 weeks to decide whether to charge anyone . |
| 21 | Having served with the Duke of Wellington 's Regiment in two campaigns on the north-west frontier of India , the Corporal was recalled briefly in 1938 , went to France in 1939 , and spent five days coming out over the Dunkirk beaches . |
| 22 | So far , he 's had his licence endorsed and spent 28 days in a young offenders institution . |
| 23 | The delegates went to the border and spent three days there screening hundreds of people and conducting in-depth interviews with many of them . |
| 24 | He left a distinctive mark of his presence , protesting on 12 December that a member had been ‘ pulled back ’ from voting in a close division , and fainting six days later : ‘ It was said he had a spice of the falling sickness . ’ |
| 25 | Azerbaijan claimed that an attack on the Azeri-populated town of Khojali ( with a population of 10,000 ) in Nagorny Karabakh on Feb. 26-27 had left 1,000 dead , and decreed three days of mourning . |
| 26 | Please make cheques payable to Lifestyle Promotions and allow 14 days for delivery . |
| 27 | One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper . |
| 28 | Tried on 15 May , he was found guilty of murder and executed three days later in London . |
| 29 | Well I , this this is something that 's always staggered me because he worked seven days a week , down the mine feeding horses you see , had to be fed , and watered seven days a week . |
| 30 | These specialist day centres are in Renfrew District and operate 5 days a week . |