Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | You may be able give up gradually , or decide one day to remove everything connected with smoking from your house — and give up from that day on . |
| 2 | A description of 1678 is so close to the kind of situation which Mayhew would give of London in the mid-nineteenth century , that it must be taken as applying just as much to the eighteenth : a poor woman that goes three days a week to wash or scoure abroad , or one that is employed in nurse-keeping three or four months in a year , or a poor market-woman who attends three or four mornings in a week with her basket , and all the rest of the time these folks have little or nothing to do . |
| 3 | Editor , — A T C Chan and M E R O'Brien describe episodes of bronchospasm and urticaria that developed four days after treatment with oral dexamethasone in a patient with pleural and liver metastases . |
| 4 | Players from almost every Premier League club were involved in a shoot that took four days and cost £400,000 . |
| 5 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 6 | For a journey that took three days . |
| 7 | Curtains advertised with 25 per cent off were in reality £20 a pair more than advertised eight days earlier , Reading magistrates heard . |
| 8 | Whilst there Norman had his twenty-first birthday , a fact he announced to a girl he met in a café and who took him off around Antwerp in celebration , on a journey of discovery that lasted two days . |
| 9 | If you normally work 4 days a week and lose 1 day , you meet the requirements of the 3 out of 6 rule but you do not meet the requirements of ‘ substantial loss of employment ’ . |
| 10 | Erm and I mean I 've had a recent bereavement , I mean I , I lost my mum at Christmas and got three days leave . |
| 11 | Cells from passages 45–65 were grown on uncoated plastic coverslips and used 4–15 days after subculture . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Today Belegar and his kinsfolk still live amongst the ruins of Karak Eight Peaks , and hope one day to reconquer the whole realm of their ancestors . |
| 14 | So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act . |
| 15 | Will you just stop fretting and arguing and imagine ten days in the balmy tropical climate of the Eastern Caribbean Windward Isles ? |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | He was found to be highly contagious and received 37 days of in-patient treatment . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Then he sent some pips from Scotland and arrived three days later to kill John 's father . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Quebec premier , Mr Robert Bourassa , condemned the killings as a ‘ barbaric carnage ’ and declared three days of official mourning . |
| 22 | The Quebec premier , Mr Robert Bourassa , condemned the killings as a ‘ barbaric carnage ’ and declared three days of official mourning . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The Helsinki embassy charges a 100 Finnmark fee ( £12 ) and takes two days , but this is considered quick . |
| 25 | They stayed at a friend 's beach house and enjoyed ten days of peace and seclusion . |
| 26 | That 's why it is always best to pay in full if you possibly can and get 56 days ' interest-free credit . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Bored , I ran away from Downside when I was sixteen and spent two days in Paris , sleeping rough , before hitch-hiking home . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |