Example sentences of "it [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no longer necessary to wait until Sunday for a dose of smut and scandal , when the Sun was offering it six days a week . |
| 2 | Well I 've done it six days . |
| 3 | Here again we are assisted by Strype : ‘ The entrails and bowels were honourably buried in the [ St George 's , Windsor ] chapel ’ , for it was not usual for the viscera chest to take any part in the state obsequies ; the coffin was reunited with it nineteen days later . |
| 4 | To illustrate , consider an investor who purchases a 91-day bill 10 days after issue at a rate of discount of 10 per cent and sells it 7 days later at the same rate of discount . |
| 5 | Most people do , though few will admit it these days . |
| 6 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 7 | You may not be aware of the Hayes Society , for few talk of it these days . |
| 8 | Although the self-titled first album contained corkers like Christine and Man To Child , Chadwick does n't seem too happy about it these days . |
| 9 | Still , more make it these days , I 'm glad to say . |
| 10 | Does everything have to have a ‘ For Sale ’ sign on it these days ? |
| 11 | ‘ If you 're — uh — gay , as they insist on calling it these days , then I 'll just have to accept it , but I shall always blame myself , always wonder where I went wrong with you , wonder whether it was that school I sent you to , I was never sure if it was a mistake or ’ |
| 12 | I do n't suppose the unions would put up with it these days but er ha there were n't such things as unions for nurses in those days . |
| 13 | He does n't often speak of it these days , but — ’ |
| 14 | It 'll take a while to be ready for use with everything they do to it these days , and if she does need it , the sooner it can be ready , the better . |
| 15 | ‘ Of course , Taiwan has a Portuguese connection dating back to the days when it was Formosa , but you wo n't have found any opportunity to air it these days . |
| 16 | I mean f I d I doubt whether firms would do it these days eh ? |
| 17 | ‘ I ca n't get away from it these days , ’ said Amiss cheerfully . |
| 18 | ‘ Not much call for it these days , ’ she said sullenly . |
| 19 | I think that frame 's worth it these days , I |
| 20 | oh no you 're so good at it these days , lovely , well done . |
| 21 | I reckon that 's the additives they put in it these days . |
| 22 | Er I said er Lisa 'd like to go out but er she do n't feel like it these days . |
| 23 | There 's a lot that do n't do it these days ! |
| 24 | I du n no but it just that it 's so difficult to get away with it these days . |
| 25 | How would you do it these days ? |
| 26 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 27 | And on the morrow they began to attack the city , and they fought against it three days strenuously ; and the Moors received great loss , for they came blindly up to the walls and were slain there . |
| 28 | Is it three days , seven days or ten days ? |
| 29 | I 'd bought it two days before and was just trying it out ! ’ |
| 30 | We arranged it two days or three days and each was cancelled |