Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | CW reported spending 2 days per week on user support in February and March , and stressed need for action . |
| 2 | Lord Owen spoke during a break in talks at Medjugorje , a Bosnian Roman Catholic pilgrimage town , as he tried to end eight days of fighting between Moslems and Croats in the city of Mostar . |
| 3 | They produced fry two days later which were born during the afternoon . |
| 4 | Yeah so anyway and I said that 's not very nice so we were talking this morning about her and I had to tell Ann did n't I that she drove to work three days on a trot in her bleeding lights two . |
| 5 | And I looked , I wrote the first one , first class answer and I thought , this is a doddle , and I 'd done three days then or two nights without kip , and I sort of and erm suddenly I f and I went Smith nineteen forty ? |
| 6 | If you worked four , you were worse off than if you worked three , you know , you 'd got three days on th er and you got you got three days dole , er unemployment pay . |
| 7 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 8 | She 'd spent ten days of a three month sentence in jail for allegedly hitting an eighty eight year old patient in her care . |
| 9 | Yes , Devlin had worked there for a while , but he 'd left three days ago . |
| 10 | The diagnosis seemed confirmed three days later when desquamation of the rash became evident . |
| 11 | She 'd lasted ten days , long enough for Shaw to rush home on compassionate leave to be with her when she died . |
| 12 | A few readers may remember that I had long ago arranged to spend two days drawing cartoons for children in the Navan shopping centre . |
| 13 | A replacement was found for her and she arranged to travel two days before Christmas . |
| 14 | On the tenth day eight of the men on my course went to spend three days studying photography , four did locks and keys and seven went to study Roman Catholicism . |
| 15 | The dog he had raised from a pup went missing 31 days ago after running off on a country walk . |
| 16 | I had to wait four days before I could risk flying her again . |
| 17 | cos er , you have to wait three days for it , and then cheque 's got ta clear in the bank , it 's like our Mark he had a cheque put in his , he had to wait three days before it cleared went in on the Wednesday , Thursday , Friday , do n't count Saturday , Sunday , Monday , cleared by Tuesday dinner time |
| 18 | Each tenant had to mow three days in autumn , and gather nuts for one day ; each gave a hen at Christmas and ten or twelve eggs at Easter to the warden of the forests between Oxford and Stamford Bridges , to make up his farm . |
| 19 | What really disturbed the Under-Secretary was the report he had received two days ago about the smuggling in of arms for this new Volunteer army . |
| 20 | He was reading once again a letter he had received three days ago . |
| 21 | Among the participants were many noted specialists in English and Linguistics , including ( Puna ) , ( Varanasi ) , ( Delhi ) , ( Indian Institute of Technology , Delhi ) , ( College of Commerce , Delhi University ) , ( CIEFL Hyderabad ) , and ( Trivandrum ) , a well-known poet who had travelled three days by train to get there . |
| 22 | On Jan. 31 the federal Collective State Presidency announced that it had ordered ( unspecified ) " special measures " to try to end the violence ; according to unofficial reports a majority of the Presidency members had voted two days earlier against sending federal troops to Kosovo to put down the unrest . |
| 23 | The chairman 's homily called to mind the short — but too long — talk he and Marilyn had suffered two days before in the vicar 's study . |
| 24 | The two Nordic girls he had seen two days before were now basking like seals outside another cafe . |
| 25 | Sally Ann Cattell died in a stolen car which crashed during a police chase last March , but the SSD denied reports that she had absconded from the children 's home , St John 's in Erdington , to which she had moved three days before the incident . |
| 26 | Later that day I was the guest of Locheil 's gamekeeper , Donald Cameron , who informed me that Fiona had died three days after her admission to hospital in Inverness , ten days ago . |
| 27 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 28 | The episode of the divan on the stairs had occurred three days ago . |
| 29 | I had boils and chilblains all over my hands , had had two days food poisoning ( when I had vomited over the Sergeant-Major 's jeep ) , and was tired all the time . |
| 30 | Nicol , since the disastrous encounter near Ullesthorpe , had had five days to make his way lamely across country to reach Sub-Prior Herluin and make his report . |