Example sentences of "it be [num] days " in BNC.

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1 It 's four days .
2 Look it 's four days
3 Well it looks to me I mean I , it , it 's five days since I was in Manchester so
4 It 's two days ' journey to London by horse , and Will talked all the way .
5 So it 's two days out in the field with one of our trainers or top people and then they come in for the three day course .
6 No so no I think it , no sorry , sorry , not it 's not , it 's two days one night .
7 Right and I think the next one you got right , because you worked it out alright , cos it 's seven days , which is how many hours ?
8 Right , right , it 's three days at , all expenses if I win here at .
9 through in a minute it 's three days .
10 It is 10 days since our shock issue highlighting the plight of the starving in Somalia — 10 days since we launched an urgent appeal to help them .
11 By the time it is four days old , it is as heavy as one of its parents ; after three weeks it weighs four times as much as they do , and dwarfs them both .
12 It is 2 days past the ‘ use by ’ date .
13 ELEANOR apart , for the rest of the King 's subjects the Treaty of Montlouis meant , by and large , a return to the status quo as it was fifteen days before the outbreak of war .
14 It was fifteen days before Isambard 's inconspicuous agents in Pool and about the hospitable courtyard of Strata Marcella picked up traces of the Welsh marauders .
15 It was 17 days since he had last locked the door of his office , turned down the lights , and unscrewed the cap of his walking stick , and heard Dr Tariq and Professor Khan discuss a series of meetings in Europe .
16 It was 27 days since Rashid had left his office at Iraqi Airlines for the last time .
17 With as many flats as a Parisian tower block and the ‘ pits ’ affording no more than a shove out of the sand , it was 16 days before the old fort hove into view 338Km after Algiers had disappeared from the rear-view mirror .
18 It was two days before medical staff found out what his distraught parents were trying to tell them — that he had swallowed the contents of a tin of paint .
19 It was two days later at eleven in the morning .
20 Malcolm , myself and Chris went round I think it was two days before , looked for the well it 's a lot tidier that it was the previous time because of the new racking .
21 It was two days later , and the news had got round that Miguel and Shelley were heroes .
22 The U.S. Consul became responsible for our wellbeing but it was fourteen days or more before my parents got word of my survival after being reported missing on 21 May . ’
23 It was fourteen days since the force had crossed the Tweed , eluded the levies that rode to intercept it , and roved south towards Newcastle , pillaging and burning what was left of the standing crops .
24 That what it means , and it was fifty days se se se seven weeks , after the death and resurrection of Jesus and the disciples had been told to wait in an upper room until the Holy Spirit would descend upon them , and you 've had that record read to you from acts chapter two of just what took place on that day , that birth day of the church of Jesus Christ .
25 It was four days ( during which he was given the last rites ) before his doctors gave him a chance to live through .
26 It was four days before I was able to hold him .
27 It was four days later when Black called Sargent Maxwell back into his office .
28 Well if it was four days it would be alright but
29 It was eleven days before that rabbit came to the trap .
30 It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then .
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