Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [prep] [num] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government has been forced into a rapid U-turn over plans to cut social security payments to care home residents if they were absent for six days or more . |
| 2 | We were seven to eight days from Deal to Plymouth . |
| 3 | Her baby was due in five days and it had tasted nothing but tears . |
| 4 | According to sources that could n't be revealed , the Paradise Corporation had pretended that Sir Charles Dobson was alive for ten days after his death so that the leadership of the company could be handed over without shaking public confidence . |
| 5 | The weather was fine after two days of rain , and over 400 spectators followed the match in the morning and 700 in the afternoon , many of them reaching Harpsden by push-bike . |
| 6 | To kill someone , all she did was fast for three days and concentrate her mind on destroying the life of her enemy . |
| 7 | I was sick for three days . ’ |
| 8 | Bingo , skittles , old-tyme Kung-fu , spitting at the chicken , all ensured that the club 's calendar was full for 370 days a year . |
| 9 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , who believes the parlour was open for three days , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
| 10 | A child aged 14 in the care of a local authority who had a history of absconding was placed in an open unit from which he absconded and was absent for 94 days . |
| 11 | He was back at the open unit on 9 June 1991 , but the following day he absconded again and this time was absent for 94 days . |
| 12 | On the last occasion he was absent for 94 days . |