Example sentences of "on a [adj] days " in BNC.

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1 That 's what this programme is about , and in that time I mean I think , I was thinking actually as Terry was speaking , erm you said that it was not clear that you can judge somebody on a hundred days , and I must say I agree with that , and I think at the moment in the last hundred days we 've been at war and it 's impossible to judge a new Prime Minister , who 's come into office in the right at the beginning of what potentially could have been a very nasty war .
2 ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications .
3 After the feasting tonight you three will leave the Rorim with an escort on a few days ’ patrolling .
4 With perfect bad timing Inge , the au pair , had left that very morning on a few days ' holiday , and tomorrow was Nettie the housekeeper 's day off .
5 It 's been going on a few days this game .
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