Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [num] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And after a sparkling three days of racing , the Gold Cup itself provided a dramatic climax to the week . |
| 2 | Mansell had started from the outside of the second row after a troubled two days with the new car . |
| 3 | They can be held for 48 hours without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and for a further five days at the discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 4 | They then remained undisturbed in their home cages for a further 16 days before experiencing the light again . |
| 5 | When we first arrived home from Hong Kong , we did not know about the aorta problem , so two days after our homecoming Michael went to London for a further two days of meetings . |
| 6 | After a Cabinet meeting on Sept. 21 it was announced that the mandate under which the multinational rapid reaction force was stationed in south-east Turkey was to be extended for a further 90 days from Sept. 30 . |
| 7 | On Feb. 5 the UN Security Council extended economic sanctions against Iraq for a further 60 days on account of Iraq 's non-compliance with previous UN resolutions . |
| 8 | Gary McAllister' exquisite chip six minutes from time sparked a frantic late charge from the faded champions to salvage a replay from a disastrous six days in which they have been dumped out of Europe by Rangers and mauled 4–0 at Manchester City . |
| 9 | Even so-called ‘ fundamentalists ’ usually insist that although it is an axiom of faith that God really created the world , he did not necessarily do so in a literal six days of twenty-four hours each . |
| 10 | [ That this House condemns British Coal for its closure of the Coventry Colliery at Keresely with the loss of 1,300 jobs , completed in a mere 13 days from the announcement of the decision to the working of the last shift ; believes that the pit is not abandoned but mothballed with 40 million tonnes of good quality reserves of medium sulphur content which will be kept on a care and maintenance basis until a link-up is organised by a privatised Daw Mill Colliery should the Government be re-elected ; condemns British Coal 's refusal to attend two meetings of local authority and parish councillors , local honourable Members of this House and church representatives and notes the absence at the meetings of 24th October and 11th November of the local Tory honourable Members ; and calls for a public inquiry into the methods of the closure and the false economics which talk of losses ' yet fail to take into account the future cost to public funds of lost production and taxes paid , and of dole and unemployment payments to be made . ] |