Example sentences of "[was/were] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , there were 129 days during the year when ozone exceeded the federal safety standards , and on 100 of those days public health warnings were issued . |
| 2 | How far " out " , were the Greeks in believing that there were 360 days in a year ? |
| 3 | A storm blew up before they were three days out from Sicily , and several ships were either wrecked or blown off course . |
| 4 | There were three days left till Christmas . |
| 5 | Therefore at 31 December there were 77 days of sales not paid for , or in other words your DSO was 77 . |
| 6 | Oh gosh , I wish there was forty eight hours in every day , and there were ten days in every week , and it 's still no good , with forty eight hours , they 'd still find enough to do , they 'd still be racing around all the time . |
| 7 | If the sidereal axial period of Venus were -43.16 days then , except for the slight effect of the eccentricity of the orbits of Venus and the Earth , Venus would present the same face to the Earth at each inferior conjunction . |
| 8 | One thing was certain : unless machines were one day to take their places , they had a lifetime 's job . |
| 9 | We were one day from the summit , after six weeks of effort . |
| 10 | Most remarkable of all , Karl , Barth , having been unable to serve as an observer , later published his reflections ( 1967 , 1969 ) , asking himself such questions as ‘ How would things look if Rome ( without ceasing to be Rome ) were one day simply to overtake us and place us in the shadows , so far as the renewing of the church through the Word and Spirit of the gospel is concerned ? ’ |
| 11 | They were one day from the summit , with only 200 feet of difficult climbing to do , when Saunders ' crampon broke . |
| 12 | There were twenty days in the month , each being regarded as divine and of distinctive omen . |
| 13 | This report goes on to say that the attacks each took place at about midnight and were twenty days apart . |
| 14 | He paid a brief homage to the Gnomes , who had journeyed all the way from the Gallan Mountains to bring their ideas for the new Queen 's Crown Jewels and did not refer to the fact that they were four days late on account of getting lost on the way . |
| 15 | We were four days in Piraeus and every day I went back to the Acropolis . |
| 16 | Yeah we were four days drive from the Grand Canyon . |
| 17 | In the centre were two day compartments , each with armchairs and tables , while one contained a couch . |
| 18 | Now , there were two days on which the only race meeting were in the north ; Kelly had asked Bill for time off and he had agreed . |
| 19 | There were two days of clashes on June 9-10 with the National Guard over bus fare increases in Acarigua , Portuguesa state , in the Andean town of Valera and in Ocumaré del Tuy , dozens of people being reported injured and nearly 200 being arrested . |
| 20 | you know when they were two days old , Trevor took me through to the hospital |
| 21 | Well that were two days ago . |
| 22 | The washout periods were seven days . |
| 23 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 24 | Again in 1727 " We was eight days at Twitenham . |
| 25 | The third time he was eight days in an open boat before they picked him up , near dying of exposure , and his nerve gone . |
| 26 | It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then . |
| 27 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 28 | It states that Aksum was eight days ' journey inland from Adulis , a port on the Red Sea established by Greek traders sent by the Ptolemys to bring back elephants to be trained for war . |
| 29 | And that was n't the first day , that was eight days er eight days solid from Sunday to the Monday following Monday . |
| 30 | According to a CBI survey , preliminary results of which will be announced in London tomorrow , the average number of days lost for every worker in both the public and private sectors through sickness last year was eight days . |