Example sentences of "day ' time " in BNC.
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31 | He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days . |
32 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
33 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
34 | There was nothing wrong with enjoying her own interests and social activities — including Martin Ward 's party in a few days ' time . |
35 | In two days ' time , she thought , she would actually see him . |
36 | During the course of their conversation , to which Julia listened with only half her attention as she sipped her brandy , she learned that Jackson French was likely to be posted to London to play a part in the winding up of UNRRA later in the year and that Comfort herself was due to leave Venice in two days ' time ‘ now that Julia is getting well again' . |
37 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
38 | In two days ' time Matthew was off to New York . |
39 | Her best chance would come when they reached Ibiza in two days ' time . |
40 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
41 | Maybe , she thought with an acrobatic leap of logic , this was by way of telling her that she should start acclimatising herself to her old way of life , because that was where she would be in less than two days ' time . |
42 | That was in two days ' time . |
43 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
44 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
45 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
46 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
47 | On returning to Rome , Thomas went again to the curia and the pope informed him that the case would begin in three days ' time . |
48 | New Year 's Eve , in about ten days ' time . |
49 | The Olympic dual silver medal-winning three-day event rider and the Edinburgh Woollen Mill 's pensioned-off steeplechaser require to add one more success to their comprehensive pillar-to-post victory at Bogside , Irvine , last Saturday , to become eligible for a tilt at the Foxhunters Hunter Chase at jump racing 's Cheltenham National Hunt Festival in 20 days ' time . |
50 | I do n't want you to throw them away today , er , because you might actually in a few days ' time think of some use for them . |
51 | My birthday in three days ' time . |
52 | This is why they ask you things like , on interviews , and they ask you , where do you see yourself in five years ' time , and I used to say , I do n't even see meself where I 'm going to be in five days ' time , never mind five , just give us the bloody job . |
53 | So it 's not Saturday , like in two days ' time ? |