Example sentences of "a [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , for instance , would have the courage to return a 120 days Note , requesting replacement with one for 60 days ? |
| 2 | The day came , and with it a forty days , forty nights style rainstorm . |
| 3 | If you are away for over a 30 days , tell your insurance company . |
| 4 | We have ten videos and ten bright pink Stepping Out bags as prizes in a 7 Days Plus competition . |
| 5 | Similarly the Trans-Wales Trail Rides , based on Cymfforest Riding Centre , Brecon ( Tel : 0874 711398 ) include not only the main ride but also a six days riding , seven nights accommodation , Black Mountain Ride , which works out cheaper . |
| 6 | I 've just chap , one of my chaps has just come back off a three days , confined spaces , responsible person course . |
| 7 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Other news now , and it 's more than a thousand days since Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza strip began the Intifada or uprising which has cost hundreds of Arab lives . |
| 10 | The situation in the Gulf may now dwarf the Palestinian issue , but no Middle East crisis can be seen in isolation ; a thousand days of protest has assured the plight of Palestinians has rarely been off the world agenda . |
| 11 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 12 | I do n't think he had much of a reputation : he was a nine days ’ wonder — if that — just before the war . |
| 13 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 14 | My name is Leap Frog and I 'm helping to raise money for Oxfam 's ‘ Appeal for a Million Days ’ . |
| 15 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 16 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 17 | These outbursts marked the end of the entire eruption , for at 2.30 p.m. on the twenty-eighth , after being active for a hundred days , the last , mild explosion echoed out over Krakatoa , and silence returned . |
| 18 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 19 | 186 names for the museum of a hundred days |
| 20 | What about the radar , I understand er it takes three hundred days to produce and a hundred days er is believed to be taken up in travelling from one site to another . |
| 21 | Yes , as you rightly say , it 's not possible to judge anyone in erm a hundred days . |
| 22 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |
| 23 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |
| 24 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |
| 25 | The quiet-spoken Esson has paid the price of seeing Defender slip from being third at one stage of the first leg to ninth in Punta , leaving Watkins to attack a two days , 17 hours , 37 minutes and 25 seconds deficit to make up on the leader , the New Zealand ketch Steinlager , and a 30 hours , 54 minutes , 52 seconds on the other top British challenger , Rothmans . |
| 26 | This consists essentially of a group of nurses specially trained in diabetic care , and exclusively devoted to that specialty providing a seven days a week , 24 hour per day service . |
| 27 | Well nobody wanted them jobs because it was a seven days ' a week job . |