Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [num] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Today , the Foreign Office said that the Court in Nepal , which originally ordered their detention , had been given 3 days to either release the men , or to start trial proceedings . |
| 2 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 3 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 4 | PC Stephen Noble who attended the scene at the college annex told the coroner a check on the van revealed it had been stolen eleven days previously . |
| 5 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 6 | The young wine , which had been delivered two days earlier from the cellars of a certain Monsieur Chapautier had been identified by Dr Davies , an admirer of fine wine and port from an early age , as having all the signs of a vintage which would mature to perfection by the 1993/94 conference season . |
| 7 | The first had arrived ten days before , and the second had been delivered four days before . |