Example sentences of "[pers pn] three days " in BNC.
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1 | It took them three days to get there via Dover , Calais , a train to Paris , and finally a coach to Monte Carlo . |
2 | It took them three days and they came up with nothing . |
3 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
4 | we had to pull forward it 's not due so we 've got er so we 've given them three days to You see when we worked out the numbers for the we were given all the , the allowances , the rates et cetera , et cetera , we worked the forecast through and seen huge amounts of time given for which the assumption is that it 's all done by hand , the job these cranes so the resources how much money had been spent . |
5 | No well they 've , I 've had them three days look . |
6 | Ah Have you never noticed I only have them three days a week ? |
7 | No I look after them three days a week . |
8 | It took me three days to decide that our life together was impossible . |
9 | That gives you three days to acclimatise . |
10 | Cor even if it takes you three days ! |
11 | ‘ I lost him three days ago and — ‘ |
12 | The journey of about 50 miles took him three days . |
13 | It would take him three days to reach Tracy with a small army and cumbersome siege machines slowing him down — what did one hour more or less matter ? |
14 | He had looked at one , years ago , but it had taken him three days to read it , carefully , from cover to cover , by which time he realized that , if he was going to do the thing at all conscientiously , he would never be abreast of current developments . |
15 | 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 ’ . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | Is it three days , seven days or ten days ? |
18 | No wonder he will not join us three days a week from now until Christmas . |