Example sentences of "of a [num] day " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 And in 1959 , Suffolk welcomed the end of a 57 day drought .
3 186 names for the museum of a hundred days
4 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 .
5 " 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 ) .
6 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 .
7 out of a five day course ,
8 The Americans talk optimistically of a 60–90 day stint before handing over to notional , yet-to-be-sponsored , UN peacekeepers .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
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