Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [adj] day ' [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | His military career ended with a sentence of twenty-eight days ' detention for absence without leave . |
| 2 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
| 3 | The Olympic dual silver medal-winning three-day event rider and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill 's pensioned-off steeplechaser require to add one more success to their comprehensive pillar-to-post victory at Bogside , Irvine , last Saturday , to become eligible for a tilt at the Foxhunters Hunter Chase at jump racing 's Cheltenham National Hunt Festival in 20 days ' time . |
| 4 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 5 | Prices ( including flights ) based on the Taj Holiday Village where I stayed my first week start at £566 per person for seven days ' bed and breakfast ( £738 for fourteen days ) . |
| 6 | Approved social workers under the Act would require specialist training and an appraisal of their competence , and the central council for education and training in Social Work ( CCETSW ) insists upon a minimum of sixty days ' training culminating in formal examinations . |
| 7 | Consequently many managers are unwilling to take on an ‘ unemployed ’ worker , however tempting their offer of several days ' service per week , as they can not cope with the high turnover of staff that ensues . |
| 8 | Charges are higher than for the society 's standard dealing system because the stockbroker can not itself be paid on the deal until the end of the stock exchange account , an average of 10 days ' delay . |
| 9 | All have now done an average of ten days ' sailing aboard British Steel Challenge and are being given what is termed ‘ continuation training ’ . |
| 10 | If at the pre-trial review the defendant does not appear and has not delivered an admission or defence and the plaintiff produces evidence as to the amount of his damages , then judgment may be entered for them ( Ord 17 , r 2(2) ) , but if evidence is not then produced the court may enter a judgment for unliquidated damages and thereafter , unless the court has itself fixed a date for assessment of such damages , the plaintiff may apply for such assessment on seven days ' notice to the defendant ( Ord 22 , r 6(1) ) . |
| 11 | We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages . |
| 12 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 13 | Some observer data on incidental catches on four vessels of the red squid fleet , over a total of 67 days ' fishing through the 1980s , showed that 105 marine mammals died in 2870 k ( 2000 miles ) of drift-net - one death for each 27 kind of net . |
| 14 | The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form . |
| 15 | He might then say to himself , as indeed I did , ‘ Well , this is power to give directions with a view to a hearing in seven days ' time , at which hearing there will be a determination of a particular question which has arisen between the parties . ’ |
| 16 | Emergency party congress in nine days ' time . |
| 17 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
| 18 | My birthday in three days ' time . |
| 19 | Gentle begged him to be a little more lenient , to which Klein said he 'd call Gentle 's studio in two days ' time , and if he received no answer would assume their deal was no longer valid . |
| 20 | Such a decision may be given on the plaintiff 's application on seven days ' notice to the Crown ( Ord 42 , r 5(1) , ( 2 ) ) . |
| 21 | No default judgment can be entered against the Crown save by leave of the court on application on seven days ' notice ( Ord 42 , r 5(4) ) , nor can summary judgment be given against the Crown under Ord 9 , r 14 ( Ord 42 , r 5(5) ) . |
| 22 | I represented this city at Florence at the cost of two days ' leave , and having my pocket picked at the station |
| 23 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 24 | The therapist agreed to see Pamela as in outpatient in 5 days ' time to provide her with a further chance to talk about her difficulties and also to provide her with support . |
| 25 | The First Response Ovulation Prediction Test contains enough material for five days ' testing , which is sufficient for about two-thirds of ovulating women to detect their LH surge . |
| 26 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 27 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |