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 . |