Example sentences of "in [adj] days and [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Holders of this theory would suggest that syphilis was already established in Europe in pre-Columbian days and it was the increase in knowledge and the travel resulting from the Renaissance that made it appear as if a new disease had been introduced . |
| 2 | I ought to be home in three days and I 've made a deal with Henry . |
| 3 | The boy was back in three days and I knew by his face he had momentous news . |
| 4 | As he prepared for tomorrow night 's away game at Leicester , caretaker manager Malcolm Crosby , said : ‘ We have to play 10 matches in 25 days and I think even Arnold Schwarzenegger would struggle to do that . |
| 5 | My wife and I loved a challenge in those days and we could see what it might become with hard work , but it was a real challenge , no mistake . |
| 6 | " Now El-ahrairah was among the animals in those days and he had many wives . |
| 7 | It was a different ball-game in those days and you bloody well know it . ’ |
| 8 | Also , and I do n't want to go on about this , I was a lonely person in those days and I had very little else to think about . |
| 9 | I think these things were not common in those days and I was looking for someone who had great potential , and decided I 'd found it in David Bowie . |
| 10 | It was in its infancy in those days and I noticed that whenever David did a show for them , they dressed the set with every conceivable brightly coloured object , with the result you could hardly see him . |
| 11 | Traffic was light in those days and I explored South Wiltshire — in fact the whole area some fifteen miles around Salisbury . |
| 12 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 13 | I had three a year and of course in between times you go we had quarter fare if we want to go anywhere , you see and er of course it was the old money in those days and I would come from Ipswich to see my parents here for sixpence halfpenny then and er , you see , I used to go on holiday alone . |
| 14 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 15 | We start in ten days and I firmly rely on the goodness of Providence to grant me a safe and prosperous passage . |
| 16 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 17 | You raised a very , very significant issue that I have n't heard much addressed in recent days and we know that there has n't really been a super power of the Soviet Union and any other military sense for the last couple of years . |