Example sentences of "it [vb past] [adj] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It lacked five days to Christmas , and it might be , with a good wind and a following swell , that they might not have to spend Christmas at Birsay . |
| 2 | I did n't get a reply before election day , so I voted Green ; it arrived two days after the election , reassuring me that the Labour Party was committed to improving gay rights . |
| 3 | It followed two days of intensive talks at the fifth round of inter-Korean Premiers ' talks which had opened in Seoul on Dec. 10 [ for fourth round see pp. 38529-30 ] . |
| 4 | It meant five days of filming in Belfast city centre . |
| 5 | It took four days for the company to identify the real cause . |
| 6 | It took many days of calm slow work to reduce his expectation of galloping and consequently reduce his degree of pulling . |
| 7 | It took fifteen days for telegrams to get from Moscow to Tsaritsyn during the Famine . |
| 8 | Two hundred years ago it took five days for news to get from Paris to Strasbourg . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It took seven days for the swelling to subside completely and a note of the allergy was made in her nursing and medical notes . |
| 11 | It lasted three days in court and I had to do night duties and then , finishing between 12 and 2 a.m. , going on nights again , going off early , going to court . |
| 12 | When Geevor mine announced 300 layoffs , the CAB was ready to move in , and it held four days of emergency advice sessions at the mine . |