Example sentences of "had a [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
2 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
3 | The news was relayed to the restive citizens that they had a few days ' respite . |
4 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
5 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
6 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
7 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
8 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |