Example sentences of "three day ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time . |
| 32 | Just three days before the workshop , he spoke to a virtual stranger about his firm intention to be in Hawaii in three days ' time , saying he had no idea how it would be made possible . |
| 33 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 34 | He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days . |
| 35 | On returning to Rome , Thomas went again to the curia and the pope informed him that the case would begin in three days ' time . |
| 36 | My birthday in three days ' time . |
| 37 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |
| 38 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 39 | He sported designer jeans , three days ' growth of beard and an elegant leather jacket that he had thrown over his shoulders against the cold . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | Its paper was to be presented to a Market Research Society seminar last March when , with three days ' notice , the health department instructed the authors to withdraw it . |
| 42 | I 'd come 7,000 miles at three days ' notice — and for what ? ’ |
| 43 | I think if you recall we had about er three days ' notice of that did n't we ? |
| 44 | Where a defendant or respondent under disability has no guardian ad litem acting for him under rr 5 or 8(2) , the plaintiff ( or applicant ) shall , after the time for delivering a defence ( or answer ) has expired and before taking any further steps , apply to the court without fee on not less than three days ' notice to the person on whom the summons was served under Ord 10 , r 4 for the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( Ord 10 , r 6 ) . |
| 45 | It was eighty-five miles to Orange , a distance we hoped to cover in three days ' marching . |
| 46 | The strange conversation came back to him while he scraped three days ' stubble from his face . |
| 47 | Sangenic can take about three days ' supply of soiled nappies before it needs emptying . |
| 48 | He asked for two or three days ' grace so that he could consult with his friends and when this was granted , he took his leave . |