Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] days of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nine-day Caribbean fly-cruises start at around £700 and £450 in the Mediterranean for lazy days of sunshine , and inclusive food and entertainment . |
| 2 | British airmen have been describing their experiences during forty days of relief missions to Somalia . |
| 3 | After four-and-a-half days of deliberation and a seven-month trial , a federal jury in Miami on April 9 found Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega , the former Panamanian military dictator , guilty on eight out of 10 counts of drug trafficking , money-laundering and racketeering . |
| 4 | The trial of Marion Barry , 54 , Mayor of Washington DC , ended on Aug. 10 when , after eight days of deliberation , the jury convicted him on one count of possessing cocaine but acquitted him on a second charge of possession . |
| 5 | The fragments that remain take the form of the ceremony of the Churching of Women after childbirth , that is , that after forty days of confinement , the woman goes to church for a ritual to mark her return to the community . |
| 6 | The court also overturned an Oct. 19 decision by Michael Heseltine , the President of the Board of Trade , taken following a public outcry , to postpone the closure of 21 of the pits subject to a review and to close the remaining 10 after 30 days of consultation . |
| 7 | After 12 days of protest in Chechen-Ingushia , the National Congress dissolved the Supreme Soviet and formed an interim administration , charged with organizing presidential elections . |
| 8 | Efforts to persuade Iraq to pump oil to pay for essential imports , under the terms of UN Resolution 706 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38451 ] , ended in failure on Nov. 24 after six days of talks in Baghdad between government ministers and the head of the UN 's Inter-Agency Humanitarian Programme for Iraq and Kuwait , Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan , who told a press conference that " the government of Iraq may be held responsible for failing to take advantage of the window of opportunity … afforded by the arrangement for oil exports and imports of essential needs " , but added that Western governments could alleviate Iraq 's humanitarian problem by releasing all Iraqi assets . |
| 9 | After 10 days of development within the egg , the forelimb of the chick — the wing — has a pattern very similar to that of the human arm , except that there are only three fingers . |
| 10 | The Congress announced after 10 days of debate that " while emphasizing its adherence to Libyan penal and procedural laws the General People 's Committee [ equivalent to a Council of Ministers ] do not object to the investigation and trial being carried out through the committee of seven constituted by the Arab League [ see p. 38883 ] or through the United Nations before a just and fair court to be agreed on " . |
| 11 | After 10 days of testimony the trial of William Kennedy Smith ended on Dec. 12 with the defendant being found not guilty on the felony charge of sexual battery ( the term for rape within the Florida criminal justice system ) and a misdemeanour battery charge . |
| 12 | After 10 days of gun battles , Federal troops were called out to quell the violence . |
| 13 | The dose of 40 mg omeprazole once daily is higher than that recommended for peptic ulcer therapy , but is regularly used in reflux oesophagitis , while a duration of five days was chosen because it has been shown that the effect of omeprazole on gastric acid and serum gastrin stabilises after three days of treatment . |
| 14 | After three days of talks in Islamabad on Nov. 4-6 , Bangladesh and Pakistan decided to set up committees in each other 's capitals to review the implementation of economic and trade relations as outlined by the Joint Economic Commission . |
| 15 | OIL PRICES drifted down yesterday as leading oil producers struggled to find a compromise on production levels after three days of talks in Vienna . |
| 16 | Talks were subsequently held in Washington DC , and on Feb. 23 , after three days of discussions , an agreement was signed between members of the Haitian parliamentary team , Aristide and the OAS special envoy , Augusto Ramírez Ocampo . |
| 17 | India and Pakistan both reportedly reinforced border troops on March 26 after three days of clashes at Keran in the Kashmir valley and at Rajouri and Poonch in Jammu . |
| 18 | After three days of negotiations , federal and state government leaders overcame party rivalries late on Saturday to agree on new measures to consolidate the budget and help pay the huge costs of German unification . |
| 19 | After three days of polling , 85% of those registered had voted . |
| 20 | AFTER three days of tests , handwriting expert Ruth Myers was in no doubt . |
| 21 | After 4 days of clindamycin with a clear clinical benefit , the treatment was changed to oral erythromycin acistrate ( 0.4 g three times a day ) . |
| 22 | Whether the payment is made within or after fourteen days of service , if the plaintiff elects to accept the sum he must within 21 days after receipt by him of the notice of payment into court or , if the notice is received less than three days before the return day , then before the hearing of the action begins , give notice of his acceptance to the court and to every other party ( Ord 11 , r 3(1) ) . |
| 23 | There was not a soul to be seen , though it was a weekend and the sun was shining after many days of rain . |
| 24 | And Colt , after long days of torture , had recognised in the Colonel someone he could like , someone whose trust he would value . |
| 25 | The trial in Tunis Military Court of 171 members of the outlawed Nahda movement , which had a radical Islamic programme , concluded on Aug. 28 after 50 days of hearings . |
| 26 | After live days of torture and uncertainty , Topaz decided to accept Lovat 's offer . |
| 27 | After five days of deliberation the New York jury delivered its not guilty verdict on July 2 , the defendant 's 61st birthday . |
| 28 | To investigate whether colonic carcinoma cells also shed the recently described soluble sICAM-1 , culture supernatants were collected from confluently growing colonic tumour cell lines after five days of culture and assessed in duplicate in an ICAM-1 specific ‘ sandwich ’ ELISA . |
| 29 | After five days of peace talks in Mexico City , the Mexican capital , the government and the leaders of the left-wing Guatemalan Revolutionary National Unity ( URNG ) guerrillas agreed on Aug. 7 to restrictions on thousands of army-sponsored Civil Defence Patrols — vigilante groups composed mainly of Indian peasant farmers , who had been accused of gross human rights violations . |
| 30 | Noriega showed no emotion at the verdict reached after five days of jury deliberation . |