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Example sentences for "fifteen days"

  • At the end of that journey of fifteen days, we come to the great and noble city of Mien, the capital of the kingdom, which is subject to the great khan.

  • In fifteen days travel we found no people, except at one little village, where one of the sons of Sartach resided, accompanied by many falconers, and falcons.

  • Preparing ourselves therefore for a voyage, we took shipping and in fifteen days we came to the island of Bandan or Banda, whence nutmegs and mace are procured.

  • Mr. Birt, of Little Russell Street, who was appointed treasurer; and with this sum I undertook to conduct the election of the Major for fifteen days, if the arrangements were left to me.

  • Although at the outset I saw that, under such circumstances, there was no chance of my success, yet I was determined to keep open the poll to the last moment allowed by law, which is fifteen days.

  • The supply of coal would not last more than fifteen days.

  • Let us wait eight or fifteen days, till the waters of the river resume their natural level.

  • Well, in fifteen days, my lord, you can send your orders to the Duncan.

  • In fifteen days more of travel equally rapid the little party would reach the shores of Twofold Bay.

  • Considering the slow rate of movement (fifteen days) it is more probable that he took the easier route via Panjshir.

  • This he attempted with difficulty in the spring, and reached a fertile country in fifteen days.

  • Fifteen days more of Tsungling mountain-climbing southwards took him to Wuchung (Udyana), where he remained during the rains.

  • I shall go up to take care of them in ten or fifteen days.

  • If no letter intervenes before that day, Papa Alston may expect to see me in some twelve or fifteen days thereafter.

  • In fifteen days a disease develops, with a running at the nostrils; the milk dries up, the coats begin to stare, the animal refuses to eat, and dies.

  • Emin Pasha is reported to be in Unyara, north-east of Lake Victoria, fifteen days' march.

  • When the Nile rises and covers the column, they know that the river has risen and has covered the land for a distance of fifteen days' journey to its full extent.

  • And they did so, and marched through the wilderness for fifteen days, but they found nothing at all.

  • The river Nile rises once a year in the month of Elul; it covers all the land, and irrigates it to a distance of fifteen days' journey.

  • Thence to Al-Gingaleh is a voyage of fifteen days, and about 1,000 Israelites dwell there.

  • He was a Norwegian sailor, who wagered that he could walk from Paris to Moscow in fifteen days.

  • He was of good constitution, but was almost an idiot; for example, he did not recognize his mother after fifteen days' separation.

  • Desbois of Paris mentions an extraordinary instance of rapid growth in a boy of eleven who grew 6 inches in fifteen days.

  • Its development has been found to occur in Culex quinquefasciatus, where it undergoes metamorphosis in about fourteen or fifteen days.

  • The life cycle under favorable conditions is completed in from twelve to fifteen days.

  • If the mails are conveyed by sailing packets on the four great lines from Fayal, then the time for all would be fifteen days additional.

  • The ferment for the first five or six days will be black and stiff; let it stand till it ferments white and kind, which it will do in fourteen or fifteen days; at that time stop the ferment, otherwise it will impair its strength.

  • Keep stirring them three or four times a day, and let them continue in the steep till the fruit begins to burst, and the stones swim on the top; which will be in about fourteen or fifteen days.

  • I reduced Macedonia under the power of the Romans; and in fifteen days finished a war, which four consuls before me had for four years conducted in such a manner, that each left it to his successor more formidable than he had found it.

  • An Adjudant could give a Sergeant eight days of Salle de Police, or fifteen days' C.

  • If they are well seasoned, they will keep twelve or fifteen days; provided you keep them in a good place, not moist, nor of any bad smell.

  • Thus they will be exceeding fat in fifteen days, and purely white and sweet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    average weight; dear chap; fifteen cents; fifteen cubits; fifteen days; fifteen fathoms; fifteen grains; fifteen inches; fifteen miles; fifteen shillings; fifteen thousand; fifteen yards; fifteen years; good soldiers; know things; long absence; make shift; meet them; mental condition; often necessary; second story; spoiled child; though there; would consider; would here; you had