Example sentences of "take two days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Helsinki embassy charges a 100 Finnmark fee ( £12 ) and takes two days , but this is considered quick . |
| 2 | This means that the traverse across Scotland usually takes two days , three if you are marooned in the middle of a Sunday . |
| 3 | I said we 'd better take two days over the trip and make a stop-over on the way . |
| 4 | Randell ( 1978 ) suggests that an interviewing at work course can reasonably take two days covering ‘ unfreezing ’ , conceptual analysis , technique development and practice with feedback . |
| 5 | Ten weeks of fighting had achieved what Haig had calculated would take two days . |
| 6 | Lugh said it would not take two days and it would not even take all night . |
| 7 | I said , that 's alright , but when you find out what wanted to er to do , he said it 'd take two days . |
| 8 | Yeah yeah that 's that 's what I 'm saying , it 's gon na take that 's that the it 's gon na take two days . |
| 9 | The habit of taking two days off proved popular in London . |
| 10 | Taking two days off first . |
| 11 | This exercise took two days . |
| 12 | As others produce a packet of Hob Nobs from a plastic carrier bag , she is revealing a foil-covered dish containing lobster marinated in apricot juice that took two days to prepare . |
| 13 | It took two days for us to get to Rome where the tournament was being played , and of course I had n't got a bag . |
| 14 | The depression took two days to clear , but afterwards Rosemary felt as well as before , both mentally and physically . |
| 15 | The route stretches some twelve to fifteen miles and parties often took two days and a night to make the journey , leaving the corpse in the " deadhouse " at Blades ( now ill ruins ) overnight . |
| 16 | The hearing took two days , at the end of which the justices announced that the decision and reasons for decision would be given on the following morning . |
| 17 | The twenty-one defendants were accused of enormous wrongdoing before and during World War II in an indictment which took two days to read and 218 days to try before a tribunal composed of two judges from each of the four victorious countries . |
| 18 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 19 | but they , they wo n't , they took two days off last week and they sat indoors for two days , they 've got a love , you know there fantastic couple , really fantastic , they 'll do anything for you , but it 's like Dave , Dave 's always saying take up golf , go swimming |
| 20 | She asked for news of Robin and Jenny , and Aunt Sarah launched into an ironic description of how a Japanese tourist half Jenny 's size and four times her age had proposed marriage to her ( ’ At least I hope it was marriage ’ ) , and how Robin had got locked overnight in the bar of the hotel where he was working and had taken two days to sleep it off ; and gradually Ruth fought down her feelings . |
| 21 | Everybody gets one and I wan na s I do n't wan na I wan na I wan na bring these in-house via the sales office and have them all centrally distributed cos it 's no good well if you read the T T G and the Travel Weekly it 's already taken two days . |
| 22 | That night , after spending the day engaged upon a frenzy of tidying and cleaning , she sat in her shining sitting room , watching television and wondering how on earth she was going to take two days of this , let alone two weeks . |