Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson found the whole island harsh and barren ; to Mrs Thrale he wrote , ‘ though I have been twelve days upon it , I have little to say . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The best turn around we achieved was 5 days between data acquisition and the processed data being loaded onto a S11S workstation , ’ he added . |
| 3 | Cos other years we 've been two days behind with orders you know and |
| 4 | It had been four days since the of worlder had said what he thought would be required , and still parin had not provided his answer . |
| 5 | It had been three days since she 'd seen Luke , three days that she 'd spent trying to get him out of her system , but she could n't deny the sudden rush of emotion at the thought of seeing him again . |
| 6 | He had been eight days at the wheel of the destroyer , and had brought her back from Greenland by ‘ Boxing the compass ’ and his father , HMS Reading 's senior officer , now more than middle-aged , had been put out of action by the rigours of the journey from Liverpool to America , and had had to hand over to Arthur when about two days out of St John 's heading for Iceland . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's been eight days now . ’ |
| 8 | It 's been three days now I 'm not sure though I could be wrong because I have n't slept very well I have nightmares of a man and they think it 's me but it is n't , is it ? |
| 9 | It 's been three days now . |
| 10 | And and come in on the , he came on the Tuesday and he 's been three days a couple of weeks so |