Example sentences of "[prep] a [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was superb in Anne of a Thousand Days , Becket , Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf , The Spy Who Came in From The Cold , Where Eagles Dare — they 've been innumerable . |
| 2 | 186 names for the museum of a hundred days |
| 3 | My name is Leap Frog and I 'm helping to raise money for Oxfam 's ‘ Appeal for a Million Days ’ . |
| 4 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 5 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 6 | These outbursts marked the end of the entire eruption , for at 2.30 p.m. on the twenty-eighth , after being active for a hundred days , the last , mild explosion echoed out over Krakatoa , and silence returned . |
| 7 | I was taken from the cellar in Beirut and enjoyed the warmth of the sun on my skin for the first time in a thousand days . |
| 8 | About half of the emigrants and all of the heavy cargo went by sea and by then numerous clippers were prepared to beat regularly from New York to San Francisco in a hundred days . |
| 9 | We have ten videos and ten bright pink Stepping Out bags as prizes in a 7 Days Plus competition . |
| 10 | If you are away for over a 30 days , tell your insurance company . |
| 11 | That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war . |