Example sentences of "it in [adj] days " in BNC.

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1 Corman admitted , ‘ I did one film really more as a joke to see if I could do it ; filmed it in two days and a night .
2 He has told colleagues in the force in South Africa ( ‘ There are lots of cops who support me ’ ) that he is ready ‘ to lick your arse in Church Square on a Sunday , if I ca n't solve it in two days ’ — referring to the notorious unsolved murder of the antiapartheid activist , David Webster .
3 I did it in ten days , but in 1867 Loving took three months to do it .
4 The debate has moved on and new elements have crept in which make devolution attractive to many people who perhaps did not feel so strongly about it or were even hostile to it in earlier days .
5 Jesus had claimed to destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days .
6 Tearing down the temple and re-building it in three days .
7 He sent for Marko and told him , " You must plant me a vineyard and bring me wine from it in seven days .
8 And the mothers had to do it in those days , half a crown to do all the washing for this woman .
9 And erm that 's when you er when you had your a a a new new rig out as they called it in those days , they called it a rig out , new rig out in those days .
10 And , and of course needlework , but erm they were mainly the , I suppose they were giving you a good er grounding as they 'd call it in those days .
11 And er great big pulleys with three inch leather belts , if they 'd have done it in , er do it in these days and the factory inspector would have cut him to pieces .
12 Not without throwing a great lot onto the rates because the rates were just Selkirkshire , and Peebleshire had to keep it up then and er we did n't er get grants for it in these days .
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