1.   I feel that you need a complete rest before you can resume normal life.

2.   The doctor had advised a complete rest for a fortnight.

3.   She is under strict orders to have a complete rest.

4.   I read in a Sunday tabloid, that Fat Mel has been told to take a complete rest from football in the hope that his ankle will heal.

5.   Doctors tell him he needs a complete rest for six months.

6.   According to a top doctor I spoke with, one month of complete rest is generally needed for this kind of rehabilitation.

7.   But after a magnetic resonance imaging test on Wednesday, it was decided that complete rest was the best solution.

8.   Daily treatment has only maintained the level of soreness in the knee, and only a period of complete rest is expected to produce much improvement.

9.   Doctors determined that he was physically exhausted and prescribed complete rest.