Example sentences of "[num] day [prep] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes colleagues , what I will do is this , erm no one will be in this Congress for the last three days without knowing the strong feelings on the Timex issue . |
| 2 | Just three days after taking an intensive training course for civilians he leapt into a blazing flat to rescue a pensioner with his pal , James Hodson . |
| 3 | The jury deliberated for five days before finding the accused guilty on all counts . |
| 4 | BRAVE Liam Hamer yesterday lost his battle for life just five days after receiving a new liver . |
| 5 | Collette Margaret McCarthy , 21 , a receptionist , never recovered consciousness and , despite a liver transplant , died on 16 August , 16 days after taking the amphetamine-based hallucinogen , Southwark Coroner 's Court in south London was told . |
| 6 | After the close down date most companies will allow a period of up to , say , 14 days for processing the various items of paperwork through both sets of accounts . |
| 7 | Within two days of leaving the warm winter of Hong Kong , I was standing shivering in the endless summer gales of the roaring forties on the shores of the Magellan Strait — if not obviously at the edge of any tectonic , plates , then certainly at the very edge of the world . |
| 8 | Just two days after losing the splendid fifth Test in Sydney , England were in Brisbane playing West Indies , and beating them convincingly . |
| 9 | With doorstep sales , the buyer had a right to cancel an HP or credit sale contract , recovering any payment already made , within four days of receiving a second copy of the agreement . |
| 10 | Just four days after completing a 30-hour journey from Edinburgh to Darwin they were expected to overcome a nine-hour time difference and temperatures in the 90 's to beat a Northern Territories Invitation XV . |