Example sentences of "over the [num ord] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 2 | Over the first two days most of the home points had been garnered by the Big Four comprising Seve Ballesteros , Jose Maria Olazabal , Nick Faldo and Ian Woosnam but in the end it was the third Spaniard and the middle-aged Irishman who rose to the occasion when their contribution was needed most . |
| 3 | HAVING had a summer of fair-weather golf , competitors in the British Women 's Stroke-Play Championship at Southerness , many of whom had not had to don a sweater in months , were faced with the foulest of conditions over the first two days . |
| 4 | Over the first four days it was all I could do to get Dawn to step off the perch I 'd set up in the field , with my glove just a few inches away from her . |
| 5 | Over the first six days we were lucky to get more than three consecutive hours . |
| 6 | Over the first three days he was watched increasingly closely , as it appeared that he may have been sleeping during the early evening when no recordings were being made , and during the nights his wife seemed to be doing her best to keep him awake . |
| 7 | Median visual analogue scores over the first 3 days of admission showed less breathlessness in the NIPPV group ( 2.3 cm [ range 0.1–5.5 ] ) than in the control group ( 4.5 cm [ range 0.9–8.8 ] ) ( p < 0.025 ) . |
| 8 | The VAS were averaged over the first 3 days of admission ( any patient with data missing was omitted from the analysis ) and these means compared by Mann-Whitney U tests . |
| 9 | Visual Analogue Scores over the first 3 days showed a significantly lower score for breathlessness for the NIPPV group , median 2.3 cm ( range 0.1–5.5 ) , than for the control group , median 4.5 cm ( range 0.9–8.8 ) , p < 0.025 ( fig 2 ) . |
| 10 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
| 11 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 12 | A representative of the mainly-Muslim Bosnian army , which seized the village in fierce fighting over the last five days , said they would not be harmed if they stayed . |
| 13 | Over the last 7 days , we 've been through India . |
| 14 | OVER the last 10 days , tens of thousands of PC users have received a floppy disc from the PC Cyborg Corporation offering information about Aids — but , like the Trojan horse , it is more than it seems . |
| 15 | Sotheby 's sale of books about the Orient from the Blackmer library have made £2.2m over the last two days with less than one per cent unsold . |
| 16 | I 've had precious little sleep over the last two days because of your delayed flight , and I 'm exhausted . |
| 17 | Faye 's moments of preoccupation over the last two days , the way she had belittled her headache last night , and her obvious struggles to overcome her concern by talking about other things … |
| 18 | Erm I wo n't dwell on York city centre and its historic core because you 're all clearly aware of that , but it its setting was accepted at the greenbelt enquiry as being sufficiently important to warrant protection wider than just its physical , existing physical limits , erm the special protection was accorded also to the the special character rather was accorded also to the surrounding countryside , much of which is very attractive , and many of the typical Yorkshire small villages and hamlets that surround the area as well , er and we 're clearly in a position in Greater York which is different from the position that arises in many other counties and many other districts within this county , we 're in a position of grave shortage of suitable , developable land , we 're in a position of high quality er character , and landscape , we 're in a position where York , in particular , has extremely good transportation links , to the Leeds Bradford conurbation , where we discuss at length over the last two days there are policies for urban regeneration , subject to regional planning guidance in that area erm and we 're in a position where quite clearly York is under pressure , a great deal of pressure from migrants , er because it 's a it 's an attractive location to live . |
| 19 | She dearly loved the twins , but over the last two days , since they 'd returned to Liz and Owen 's apartment , her cousin 's ancient washing-machine had seemed to be going non-stop ! |
| 20 | ‘ What you 're telling me , Tallboy , ’ said the Superintendent with practised distaste , ‘ is that the sum total of knowledge gleaned by almost the entire Medewich police force , continuously engaged over the last ten days comes to this : Paul Gray was murdered on Thursday or Friday July first or second , somewhere between Markham cum Cumbermound and Medewich , by persons unknown , at a time not yet established , at a place not yet identified , for an as yet undiscovered reason . |
| 21 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 22 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 23 | ‘ The number of members has , over the last few days and weeks , dropped more dramatically than a barometer before an impending typhoon . ’ |
| 24 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 25 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 26 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 27 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 28 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 29 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 30 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |