Example sentences of "[pers pn] took [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | I took 2 days off work before my baby was born , and on the third day my life suddenly changed and it seemed that all of my well laid plans would go to waste . |
2 | We took 3 days to get back . |
3 | but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming |
4 | In one year alone he took 334 days off . |
5 | His friends had stopped coming and the workshops he took these days were in colleges far afield . |
6 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
7 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
8 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
9 | It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam . |
10 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
11 | It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts . |
12 | It took six days to replace the locks on the car , and all the while I was worrying that the thieves might try to steal it . |
13 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
14 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
15 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
16 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
17 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
18 | Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents . |
19 | It took three days to reach the town of Clujnapoca , where the generator was loaded on to a romanian aid wagon for the final stage of the journey . |
20 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
21 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
22 | It took several days to confirm the outbreak and the unit was not closed until a week later . |
23 | It took 21 days to get to Basra , through the Suez Canal , down the Red Sea ( that was not ) sharp left at Aden and up the Persian Gulf . |
24 | It took seven days for the swelling to subside completely and a note of the allergy was made in her nursing and medical notes . |