Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The function was hosted by the agency for the US businessmen , who fly home today after a five day golfing trip organised by the Northern Ireland Partnership . |
| 2 | After a five day course on reach truck driving Derek scored an outstanding 85 per cent in the written test before going on to give a perfect display of driving for the examiners . |
| 3 | After a two day debate , the Bill received a Second Reading , on a free vote , by a majority of exactly 100 : 204 voting in favour and 104 against . |
| 4 | After a two day hearing the magistrates took 20 minutes to find Mr Gould not guilty , a verdict that disappointed Mr Hoad . |
| 5 | But after a two day trial magistrates found all the men not guilty . |
| 6 | On 23 November 1917 , the Battalion entrained for Italy and , after a six day journey , arrived at Marseilles and from there along the French Riviera to Ventimiglia and on to Villa del Conte to become part of the XIXth Corps , taking over positions on the Piave , and then on the Asiago Plain . |
| 7 | She 's back home tonight after a 12 day visit to San Quentin . |
| 8 | After a three day trek across the desert , the group reached ground zero , the point directly above the buried bomb , stopping the countdown with only seven minutes to go . |
| 9 | The body of a young climber has been found in the Scottish Highlands after a three day search . |
| 10 | And more than thirty children have returned to school after a three day break caused by a shortage of teachers . |
| 11 | After a seven day washout period , the same measurements were taken under the same conditions after intake of the other treatment being studied . |
| 12 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 13 | And in 1959 , Suffolk welcomed the end of a 57 day drought . |
| 14 | 186 names for the museum of a hundred days |
| 15 | As a result of a two day debate at Westminster and the publication of a White Paper " The Northern Ireland Constitution " the Westminster government decided that a Constitutional Convention should be elected which would make proposals regarding the way in which the people of Northern Ireland themselves wished to be governed . |
| 16 | " All sectors of the economy must be held accountable for the environmental consequences of their activities … " said environment ministers at the end of a two day meeting , in Paris , of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) . |
| 17 | Tomorrow is the start of a two day conference entitled , ‘ The Business Sector and Partnership : Strategies for Economic Regeneration and Jobs ’ taking place at the Atlantic Tower Hotel . |
| 18 | out of a five day course , |
| 19 | The Americans talk optimistically of a 60–90 day stint before handing over to notional , yet-to-be-sponsored , UN peacekeepers . |
| 20 | The speed and endurance section of a Three Day Event is divided into four parts — sections A , B , C and D — which aim to test the stamina of the horse as well as its ability cross country . |
| 21 | Cricket … on the second day of a three day match at the Parks , Oxford University have begun their reply to Middlesex 's huge first innings total . |
| 22 | On December 14 , 1988 , at the end of a 65 day trial , in Cape Town , South Africa , fourteen Black activists , all members of Umkhonto We Sizwe , the armed wing of the African National Congress ANC ) , were sentenced to jail , for the ’ crime ’ of resisting the apartheid system . |
| 23 | They praised Bishopsgarth School for its many contacts with local industry , including British Steel and Tioxide , and also for raising £10,000 towards a five day residential course in Northumberland for every year seven pupil . |
| 24 | My name is Leap Frog and I 'm helping to raise money for Oxfam 's ‘ Appeal for a Million Days ’ . |
| 25 | • You can have it for a 14 day HOME TRIAL |
| 26 | Simon Lawler , prosecuting asked for a 14 day adjournment so that the charges against the two officers could be finalised . |
| 27 | Jim Weir , Arthur Breen and Ann Dickson also attended Kidderminster College for a six day course on ‘ Training for Productivity and The Contribution of the Supervisor . ’ |
| 28 | Trail rides : From around £250 for an extended weekend break ( four days ) to include B&B accommodation , up to £700- plus for seven nights , based on a luxury hotel ; nearly £800 for a nine day , ten nights , ride . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |