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Example sentences of "and [prep] [num] days " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Her exhausted captain had had to hand over the wheel to Arthur and for eight days he was scarcely relieved .
2	And for two days officials from the General Council discussed with the Government the possibility of extending the subsidy .
3	Food was short and for two days I was kept running round trying to buy up supplies , with the result that I had to retire to bed with blistered feet .
4	This they did near Poitiers in mid-September , and for two days papal representatives went to and fro between the forces in the hope of securing an arrangement .
5	She flung the fork down , looking daggers at him , and continued : ‘ The house she lived in during the war received a direct hit , and for two days she was buried alive nursing a glass vase belonging to her mother .
6	Paper has been smuggled from Croatia on horseback over the mountains which is very dodgy , and for two days Oslobodjenje was printed on blue and yellow paper as the white had run out .
7	A long quarter swell built up and for four days and nights the carrack raced along , slipping backwards down each wave as it overtook her , wallowing heavily as the next one came up astern , and making a dazzling white wake that trailed astern like a huge , ragged scar across the aquamarine ocean .
8	Mr Brannigan and Mr McBride were arrested in January 1989 and held for six days , 14 hours and 30 minutes and for four days , six hours and 25 minutes respectively .
9	Starting Monday and for six days , our panel of highly-qualified experts will take to the road in a bid to help YOU slim down and shape up .
10	Its rationale shifted but its purpose in one respect at least remained , and orthodox women to this day follow through the ritual of purification at the mikva every month and abstain from physical contact with their husbands during their times of bleeding and for seven days thereafter ( = two weeks every month ) .
11	I formed a Party , dashed to London at eleven o'clock at night , and for three days lived in all the tempest of Pleasure …
12	The ships soon lost sight of each other and for three days were tossed violently about while cannon , horses , weapons and even food were thrown overboard to lighten them .
13	Their emergency rations ran out and for three days they had just water .
14	Again she prays and for three days and three nights she is swept through cold northern seas until she is cast ashore on the sands of Culleross on the north side of our Solway Firth .
15	So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would .
16	So once again he rowed out to sea , and for three days neither ate nor fished .
17	From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year .
18	M.Ps have no privilege protecting them against an arrest on criminal charges but they are protected against arrest in connection with a civil matter while parliament is in session and for 40 days before and after .
19	As the days passed , hope faded of finding John Brown alive and after 14 days it was agreed that there was no urgency as the search was only to find his body for Christian burial .
20	Not even the raids on the town 's three gay brothels brought forth a whisper of information about Surere 's whereabouts , and after four days of intensive hunting , over ground which included the Valley of the Great Tombs on the west bank of the river , Merymose began to think that perhaps , after all , the escaped political had done as he had told Huy he would , and left for the northern deserts to found his religious community .
21	This treatment and the prescribed antibiotics started to take effect and after 4 days Mr Brown 's temperature returned to normal levels and his chest sounded clear .
22	Adventure Training put him in contact with me and after five days Bombardier Michael Goldsmith and a subaltern had come to see me from the Outer Hebrides with a view to offering an army vehicle .
23	Cirrhotic patients ( Child 's A or B grade ) with documented bleeding oesophageal varices were treated initially with emergency sclerotherapy , and after five days stability ; were allocated to one of the two treatment regimes .
24	I passed my medical check and after two days Alex , Chris , myself and a dozen others were ordered to report for our Intelligence tests which were held in a metal hut at the back of the compound .
25	‘ In the end , they told me to give him a bottle because he was too hungry to feed properly , but looking back I 'm sure it was because they did n't have time to help me ; and after two days I had to go home because they needed the bed .
26	The siege commemorated in my nursery rhyme took place in 1761 : an English fleet cut off supplies to the citadel , and after 38 days the garrison surrendered .
27	Publishers have been reluctant to comment on this proposed scheme at present , but it is believed to be an agreement whereby a publisher 's rep would be given authority to put into the store any title in any quantity , for example 500 copies of a new title , and after 60 days would take back any copies the manager no longer wanted .
28	At zero six hundred hours the following morning Captain Trentham gave them a full briefing : they were to be transported by ship to Boulogne , they learned , and after ten days ' further training they would be expected to march on to Etaples , where they would join their regiment under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Danvers Hamilton DSO , who , they were assured , was preparing for a massive assault on the German defences .
29	He took lots of notes and after three days he said , ‘ Raymond , I want to give you a check .
30	Right , the story 's building up to a sort of crescendo erm the the Sanhedrin was saying he heard him say I will tear down this temple which men have made and after three days I will build one that is not made by men with our hindsight , with our knowledge of what went on .