Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [adj] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crawford travelled to San Francisco for two days with director Richard Lester to see a screening of How I Won the War . |
| 2 | He visited North-East towns including Darlington , Barnard Castle , Durham and Middlesbrough for eight days for a study of regional manners commissioned by Northumbria Tourist Board . |
| 3 | Late the following morning he had telephoned to inform her that he would be out of Taiwan for some days as a problem requiring his personal attention had arisen at the commercial recording studio he owned in Singapore . |
| 4 | He it was who inaugurated Continental excursions , for in 1925 he took a dozen boys to Bruges for eight days on an educational visit . |
| 5 | Some 2,000 representatives of Ivoirian institutions , trade unions and lobby groups met President Félix Houphouet-Boigny for five days of discussions on the country 's economic , social and political problems on Sept. 21-26 , 1989 . |
| 6 | The agreement would allow 500 armed UN guards to be deployed in Mogadishu within 21 days with a brief to protect food distribution operations . |
| 7 | CRACK batsman Brian Lara steered the West Indies to their second one-day win over Pakistan in three days in Port of Spain , Trinidad . |
| 8 | SIR — A 43-year-old healthy Finnish man visited St Petersburg in Russia for 3 days during Easter , 1993. 12 h after he returned he became acutely ill with a sore throat . |
| 9 | Two 16 day visits departing 16 June and 4 July with three days in Moscow followed by the cruise in a luxury liner ( all cabins with private bath ) through Moscow Volga canal and the Golden Ring to Uglitch , Yaroslavl , Kostroma , Plios , Kazan and Nizhni Novogorod . |
| 10 | The Darlington Council survey into the ‘ bin it and bag it ’ scheme was carried out last December over several days at various times to determine future action over the project . |
| 11 | Passengers can travel in the three coaches featured in The Darling Buds of May on most days in this period . |
| 12 | On March 7 he had been suspended from the House of Commons for 20 days after the Commons select committee on members ' interests had on Feb. 19 upheld two allegations against him of failing to declare business dealings in the register of MPs ' interests . |
| 13 | If , for any reason , you then decide that you do not want Home Improvement Loan Protector cover , you may return your Certificate to NatWest within 14 days for cancellation without charge . |
| 14 | One has some sympathy for the loyal , compliant Mr Prince in these days before the Goulds ' departure for Australia ; even more so than when prince was left behind with all the doubts and pressures of having to act on his master 's behalf . |
| 15 | Four people were killed in Glina in several days of fighting which began on June 26 when Serbs tried to take control of the police station . |
| 16 | Demirel repeated his assurances to Yeltsin during two days of talks held in Moscow from May 25 [ see also p. 38924 ] . |
| 17 | Yang Yang , 20 , a self-confessed member of China 's pro-democracy movement , had been detained in Hong Kong for 10 days after being arrested for overstaying his visa . |
| 18 | This is our basic delivery service which aims to deliver most parcels within the UK within 3 days from the date of despatch . |
| 19 | In October 1967 , when he was manager of Chelsea he was suspended by the English FA for 28 days for alleged misconduct during a friendly match in Bermuda , where he persistently swore at a black referee . |
| 20 | The Democratic Unionist Leader , the Reverend Ian Paisley , has been suspended from Westminster for five days after refusing to withdraw accusations about Sir Patrick Mayhew . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect news from Rivera within two days at the outside . |
| 22 | Its main use is as a riding/tool/brake vehicle on winter works trains , but it is also doing temporary duty as a tickets/sales vehicle at Bala on busy days in the season . |
| 23 | NASA satellite surveys had revealed record levels of chlorine monoxide over parts of North America and Europe during some days in January . |
| 24 | This message has been carried around Europe in recent days by the normally reticent Nicholas Brady , America 's Treasury secretary . |
| 25 | The Swiss chargé d'affaires was on March 23 , 1989 , ordered to leave Iran within seven days for activities incompatible with his diplomatic status . |
| 26 | A MAN accused of holding his girlfriend hostage at gunpoint at a house in Darlington for two days over Easter appeared in court yesterday . |
| 27 | A STUDY being undertaken by the Welsh Office , Dyfed County Council and Cyngor Dosbarth Ceredigion into trunk roads in the Aberystwyth area will be the subject of a public exhibition at Aberystwyth for three days from July 8 . |
| 28 | Opposition groups staged mass protests in Belgrade on consecutive days on March 9-12 , calling for the resignation of Serbian President Milosevic . |
| 29 | He had n't been able to see Slater for two days after the party , and that time had passed in a daze for him . |
| 30 | ‘ The second alleged that I took the players off to Henlow Grange for four days before the Cup-tie with Charlton last season without his say-so … although we did exactly the same thing for the previous round . |