Example sentences of "[pron] [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | hold me love me Eight Days |
| 2 | Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess . |
| 3 | After my four days Ken was to set off on his own curtailed family holiday . |
| 4 | I was just feeling the early morning sun as it warmed the beads of sweat that dripped down my two days ' stubble . |
| 5 | So my two days are the tenth |
| 6 | It took them 289 days of bureaucratic proceedings , and they were forced to pay two bribes ( out of 10 solicited ) . |
| 7 | He says he only bought them 10 days ago , but he does n't have a receipt to prove it . |
| 8 | ‘ I last saw her eight days before she was found . |
| 9 | Princes William , 10 , and Harry , eight , last saw her six days ago before travelling to Sandringham , Norfolk , to spend Christmas with the Queen , Prince Charles , and the rest of the Royal Family . |
| 10 | During its six days in Havana harbour the St Louis had become a tourist attraction , and its departure was watched by an estimated crowd of 100,000 . |
| 11 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |
| 12 | Her job at Garfield , her three days a week in Whitehall , the house in Wandsworth , her furniture , Sam 's school , a series of accidents . |
| 13 | During her three days working in the Toronto Skydome she made friends with an athlete who now writes to her in Chinese . |
| 14 | The group formed part of the twenty seven strong Sales Training Course run by Stoddard Templeton which visited Lyles in May during their three days of instruction . |
| 15 | A committee member may be removed by resolution of the creditors at a meeting of which fourteen days ' notice has been given ( r 6.159 ) . |
| 16 | A Hoxha monument was also attacked on Feb. 20 by protesters in the port of Durrës , which 11 days earlier had been the scene of rioting by would-be emigrants trying illegally to board a ferry for Italy . |
| 17 | Evidently the garden had been badly neglected during her ten days ' absence . |
| 18 | The RFU are seizing the initiative with their Fifteen Days of England Rugby campaign between September 5th and 19th , which sets out to market the game among young players and their parents everywhere . |
| 19 | We tried to keep those as well , in memory of them , although we did not know which part of the year they had their twelve days . ’ |
| 20 | But now I had come face to face with her four days after she stood before the House of Commons and declared that there were too many hospital beds in London , and that as a result , St Bartholomew 's Hospital , along with numerous others great and small , would have to close , merge or become emasculated . |
| 21 | Johanna 's boyfriend , slaughterman Ryan Firman , 17 , who broke up with her two days before she vanished , last Wednesday night , was at work yesterday . |
| 22 | To her surprise , they agreed that she could continue to work for PW three days a week , leaving her two days to work on the business . |
| 23 | She has a rat on top of the living room door on Christmas Day , for example , and it will last her two days . |
| 24 | And no doubt now he expected her to be suitably softened up by her two days ' grieving , ready to fall back into his arms on the strength of one calculated gesture . |
| 25 | " You saw her two days ago ? " |
| 26 | Charity enjoyed her two days off . |
| 27 | It was covered by Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Rawlinson 's 4th Corps , which two days before had landed at Ostend and Zeebrugge . |
| 28 | During their four days in Edinburgh , in addition to their time at Torness , they will be briefed about Scotland by staff from the US Consulate-General , visit the Castle and learn about Scottish dancing . |
| 29 | In contrast to Montgomerie , Gilford , who won in Agadir with a nine-under-par 279 to retain the title , and runner-up Spence , who finished on 280 with Stephen Ames of Trinidad and Tobago , flew home well satisfied with their four days ' work . |
| 30 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |