Example sentences of "for [adj] days [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jury sat for 184 days in total , spread through a year and four days , the second longest criminal trial in English legal history . |
| 2 | Nine-day Caribbean fly-cruises start at around £700 and £450 in the Mediterranean for lazy days of sunshine , and inclusive food and entertainment . |
| 3 | JOHN Joseph McGinn , 31 , of Hillside Avenue , Huyton , was jailed for 120 days by Wirral magistrates after admitting driving while disqualified at Wallasey , having consumed excess alcohol and having no insurance . |
| 4 | For eight days on end , beat officers , half the rank-and-file establishment , saw little daylight . |
| 5 | We could go for eight days between fill-ups instead of having to brim the tank every four days , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Rats were treated for eight days with indomethacin ( 2 mg/ kg , twice daily ) in addition to cyclosporin A ( 5 or 10 mg/kg daily ) . |
| 7 | Cardiff magistrates remanded all four teenagers charged with murder of ‘ good neighbour ’ Les Reed in custody for eight days until June 22 . |
| 8 | Two of the largest US airlines , Delta and Northwest , offer the air bargain of the year : unlimited travel on their domestic networks for 30 days for $399 , about £8 a day . |
| 9 | A POLICEMAN who slapped a prisoner twice during a struggle at Fort William police station was jailed for 30 days at Fort William Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 10 | Ultimate haemostasis was defined as lack of rebleeding for 30 days after treatment . |
| 11 | Nestle Foods Corporation said it would not buy Salvadoran coffee for 30 days in response to a consumer group campaign against the war in El Salvador . |
| 12 | The prototype of the new Fast Afloat Boat 3 ( see pa 90 of this issue ) carried out her first service on 29 May while returning from Salcombe to Weymouth , where she was based for some days for familiarisation trials . |
| 13 | Moreover she had the real comfort of knowing that her community appreciated what she was doing ; more , her life excited such admiration that after her death the interment had to be delayed for some days for fear of riots . |
| 14 | Chapman , 23 , of Norwood Road , Herne Hill , south London , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £50 costs by magistrates at Streatham , south London , for leaving Ziggy for six days without water and only a tiny piece of cheese to eat . |
| 15 | She left the Tyne yesterday for six days of sea trials and ‘ our worry is that it will not come back to the river but will be completed somewhere else in the UK ’ , he said . |
| 16 | Social workers , librarians , planners , architects , housing staff , tax , careers and school officers will be taking part in the vote for six days of strike action over a six week period from October 4 . |
| 17 | The tournament , which runs for six days at Pontin 's Holiday Club , in Brixham , south Devon , has 70 competitors taking part . |
| 18 | He was eventually put ashore on the island of Emira where he had to live for six days on coconuts before being rescued and brought to Sydney , Australia . |
| 19 | Uppark will first be made weatherproof and opened to the public for six days in November before restoration work begins . |
| 20 | The protest continued on the following day , but on April 12 the strike committee agreed to suspend strikes for 10 days pending negotiations with the republican leadership . |
| 21 | So send for your three introductory books now from only £1 each ( +£2.25 p. & p. ) and examine them FREE at home for 10 days without obligation . |
| 22 | He continued to conduct retreats : the old students at Cuddesdon , clergy at Pleshey in Essex , the Franciscans at Cerne Abbas in Dorset , the nuns at Whitby ; probably he was the first archbishop in the history of the see to make so much time for such days of peace , even though , for the conductor , they were days of intellectual and emotional effort . |
| 23 | This gives an actual return for holding the CD for 90 days of £2,406.41 . |
| 24 | Last year the company lost £30,000 worth of fish bound for the Spanish market when the consignment was blocked for three days outside Toulouse by French lorry drivers protesting about restrictions on the hours they could drive . |
| 25 | And the studio floor was covered with meat , and they had this dog they 'd starved for three days with contact mics all over its stomach … and they were recording him eating the meat ! |
| 26 | For light microscopic examination , pieces of tissue from the gastric corpus were left in the fixative for three days at room temperature and , after dehydration in a graded series of ethanol , were embedded in Historesin ( LKB , Bromma , Sweden ) . |
| 27 | Sir Michael Quinlan , Britain 's permanent under-secretary of defence , arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday for three days of talks about purchases of military equipment . |
| 28 | Sahibzada Yaqub Khan , the Foreign Minister of Pakistan , arrived in New Delhi on Jan. 21 for three days of talks with Indian leaders , including I. K. Gujral , the Minister of External Affairs . |
| 29 | gets under way on Saturday the thirtieth of October , and for just seventy five pounds , you can be on board the M S , which 'll be your floating hotel for three days of relaxation and entertainment . |
| 30 | Commencing five days after induction of colitis and continued twice daily for three days until day 8 , the rats received by intragastric instillation either Kaopectate ( 105 mg kaolin , Upjohn Ltd , Crawley , UK ) Medicoal ( 25 mg activated charcoal , Lundbeck Ltd , Luton , UK ) , terra fullonica ( 300 mg hydrated aluminium silicate , ICI Pharmaecuticals , Wilmslow , UK ) , or tap water ( disease controls ) . |