Example sentences of "took two days " in BNC.

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1 This exercise took two days .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 The depression took two days to clear , but afterwards Rosemary felt as well as before , both mentally and physically .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything .
9 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
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