Example sentences of "it [verb] [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 | The only , the only thing it has short days |
| 5 | Otherwise , if they take the long route , it adds ten days going from Guam in the Pacific to Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean . |
| 6 | In the nineteenth century , it was possible to see female castration as a cure , just as it happens these days that women request cosmetic surgery to make their genitalia look ‘ more tidy ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Aa made it nobbut two days sen . |
| 8 | It seemed several days since he had seen the girls ' bodies in their mockery of repose at the embalmer 's shed that morning . |
| 9 | ‘ He told me it happened 10 days earlier . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Since it arrived four days ago , every last word was beaten into her brain . |
| 12 | It takes 4 days , following a very beautiful rocky and indented coast . |
| 13 | It takes four days to complete one orbit of Earth . |
| 14 | He says , no it takes thirty days to get here . |
| 15 | It takes 16 days for Landsat 's instruments to build up a global picture . |
| 16 | Usually it takes three days , but in a hurry … . ’ |
| 17 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 18 | Well we 're not bathing him again it takes three days to dry him |
| 19 | IT TAKES 150 days to produce a Brooks saddle . |
| 20 | To get legal authorization to open a newspaper kiosk or a small store , it takes 43 days of paperwork and costs $590 in fees and lost work time . |
| 21 | The half million popunds a year keeps it flying five days a week over an area from the outlying villages of Herefordshire to Northamptonshire and the city streets of the West Midlands . |
| 22 | 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 ] . |
| 23 | ‘ It bodes dark days ahead for retailers , ’ said sales director Peter Bastin . |
| 24 | It meant five days of filming in Belfast city centre . |
| 25 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 26 | It took eight days to restore normal service in the area . |
| 27 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 28 | It took 44 days , rather than the scheduled 20 , to travel the 50 km to Lebong Hitam . |
| 29 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 30 | It took fifteen days to try : the summing-up lasted for a day : the jury returned thirteen special verdicts . |