Example sentences of "was [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 2 | Again in 1727 " We was eight days at Twitenham . |
| 3 | The third time he was eight days in an open boat before they picked him up , near dying of exposure , and his nerve gone . |
| 4 | It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then . |
| 5 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 6 | It states that Aksum was eight days ' journey inland from Adulis , a port on the Red Sea established by Greek traders sent by the Ptolemys to bring back elephants to be trained for war . |
| 7 | And that was n't the first day , that was eight days er eight days solid from Sunday to the Monday following Monday . |
| 8 | According to a CBI survey , preliminary results of which will be announced in London tomorrow , the average number of days lost for every worker in both the public and private sectors through sickness last year was eight days . |
| 9 | That what it means , and it was fifty days se se se seven weeks , after the death and resurrection of Jesus and the disciples had been told to wait in an upper room until the Holy Spirit would descend upon them , and you 've had that record read to you from acts chapter two of just what took place on that day , that birth day of the church of Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | Two centuries later the normal embalming period was 70 days . |
| 11 | It was eleven days before that rabbit came to the trap . |
| 12 | The war was eleven days old when School opened again , " as usual " , on Thursday , 14th September , the only concession to the new circumstances being a change in the hours : the morning sessions now ran from 8.50 am to 12.15 pm , the afternoon from 1.30 to 3.30 . |
| 13 | A survey by the working party of the top 100 UK companies indicated that the average period of time from the interim date to the release of the interim results was 53 days . |
| 14 | The median interval from identification of fibrosing cholestatic hepatitis to death or transplantation was 53 days , range 35 to 85 days . |
| 15 | This was 2 days before the Oldham match . |
| 16 | The most common period was 30 days , occurring three times ( 33% ) . |
| 17 | The mean time since their last visit when they were negative for HIV was 129 days . |
| 18 | It was some days before he resolved on this , but he then met with strong opposition from both Joffre and Foch , who wanted him first to penetrate the centre ridge between Pozières and Thiepval . |
| 19 | The average length of stay of readmitted patients was 12 days compared with 15 for those not readmitted . |
| 20 | The median hospital stay from the first stage in patients with acute complications was 12 days ( range three to 33 ) . |
| 21 | The median time to full recovery as judged by the patient was 12 days — that is , two days after the Foley drainage catheter was removed and ranged from two to 28 days . |
| 22 | It was early days , he must understand , but there was hope . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the Inland Revenue said it was early days but added : ’ There are stringent quality controls to make sure the estate agents are doing their jobs properly . |
| 24 | The mean follow-up was 2582 days for the heparin group and 2488 days for the control group , with a maximum follow-up respectively of 2812 and 2677 days after the end of the study . |
| 25 | The figure for France was six days , but the investigators say this is provisional because of difficulties in collecting French information . |
| 26 | That was six days before Black Wednesday , when the Government 's economic policy collapsed in shambles and Britain quit the ERM . |
| 27 | The judgement from on high was six days ' heavy rain . |
| 28 | And I mean , that was six days a week ! |
| 29 | She would have especially wanted to know more of her own mother , whose story is told in the final chapters and who died in 1903 of peritonitis when the author was 10 days old . |
| 30 | The mean time interval between completion of radiation treatment and surgery was 10 days . |