Example sentences of "after [adj] days the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The appeal began on 28 July and was expected to last two weeks , but after three days the judges decided they had heard enough .
2 After three days the family made the agonising decision to switch the machine off when they were told he would not recover .
3 After three days the castle capitulated and was demolished .
4 After ten days the calf had become a haunting presence .
5 The siege commemorated in my nursery rhyme took place in 1761 : an English fleet cut off supplies to the citadel , and after 38 days the garrison surrendered .
6 She was brought almost to despair , until after twelve days the hallucinations ceased .
7 After five days the freezers were collected and returned to the laboratory .
8 After four days the vapour settles .
9 The first meeting of the SNC opened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on Sept. 17 , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , the main stumbling block being the appointment of a SNC chair .
10 The first meeting of the SNC convened in the disused Cambodian embassy in Bangkok on mid-September , but after two days the talks had ground to a halt , with disagreements over the appointment of a Chair .
11 Jed drove north to begin with , his wrist a rectangle of heat and all that numbness just behind his eyes , but after two days the roads drew him inland , over high mountains , and soon he was heading due west .
12 If the adventurers have n't buried the bodies properly after seven days the Ghost will attack them , convinced that they were lying .
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