In 10 days'/five years'/a few minutes' etc time
Ten days, five years etc from now:
He has an appointment with the doctor in two days' time.
Vac‧cin‧ate [transitive]
To protect a person or animal from a disease by giving them a vaccine [= immunize]
Vaccinate somebody against something
All children should be vaccinated against measles.
—vaccination noun [uncountable and countable]
A flu vaccination
Needle
Injection-1 [uncountable and countable] an act of putting a drug into someone's body using a special needle [↪ shot]:
The nurse gave me a tetanus injection.
injection of
an injection of insulin
The children hate having injections.
The only sure treatment is antibiotics, preferably by injection
Stuff [uncountable]
1
Things
informal used when you are talking about things such as substances, materials, or groups of objects when you do not know what they are called, or it is not important to say exactly what they are:
I've got some sticky stuff on my shoe.
How do you think you're going to fit all that stuff into the car?
I felt sorry for the ones who had to eat the awful stuff.
Where's all the camping stuff?
2
Somebody’s stuff
Informal the things that belong to someone:
Did you get the rest of your stuff?
3
Activities/ideas
Informal used when talking about different activities, subjects, or ideas, when you do not say exactly what these are:
What kind of stuff do you like to read?
I've got so much stuff to do this weekend.
There's a lot of interesting stuff in this book.
He's talked to me about all that stuff too.
He does mountain biking and skiing and stuff like that.
4
Work/art
Informal used when you are talking about what someone has done or made, for example writing, music, or art:
I don't like his stuff.
John Lee was getting ready to play his stuff.
He did some great stuff in his early films.
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