Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 2 | It reopened several days later , however , and no further desalination plants came under direct threat during February . |
| 3 | In her early years it met three days a week , but in the final decades was meeting on six or seven . |
| 4 | It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning . |
| 5 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 6 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 7 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 8 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 9 | It meant five days of filming in Belfast city centre . |
| 10 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 11 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 12 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 13 | It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam . |
| 14 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 15 | It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 20 | Belgium , he remarked , was a state addicted to backstairs deals and perpetual campaigning , where it took 100 days just to form a government . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Kept under police guard day and night , it took three days to reassemble the building and its contents . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It took three days to clear up the damage to the River Windrush at Witney in Oxfordshire . |
| 25 | He moans : ‘ It took three days to record one 30 minute Hot Shoe Show , whereas it takes one day to film a game show . |
| 26 | It took several days to confirm the outbreak and the unit was not closed until a week later . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It took seven days for the swelling to subside completely and a note of the allergy was made in her nursing and medical notes . |
| 29 | You know quite apart from the fact that you get a situation where somebody sets fire to the infrastructure and it closes down the whole of the East coast main line like it did two days ago . |
| 30 | It lasted two days . |