Example sentences of "three day [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were civil looks and fair speeches , and there 's another meeting called three days hence , at Shrewsbury . |
| 2 | ‘ Guy is at least three days away , ’ said Isabel with dreadful calm . |
| 3 | With the first Test against the All Blacks now only three days away , the Lions have only one fit centre Jeremy Guscott . |
| 4 | ‘ We want to be talking two to three days here . |
| 5 | We 'll need another two or three days here , but I have to go down to the mortuary with the body . |
| 6 | ( 4 ) A random plasma glucose concentration between 20.0 and 24.9 mmol/l results in the patient receiving a general practitioner prompt with a covering letter advising attendance at the general practitioner surgery within three days rather than 10 days |
| 7 | Eventually his complaints were taken seriously , and the first-aid training module was put into practice three days ahead of schedule . |
| 8 | I had heard about the Dog Man before on my week-long journey from Kirk Yetholm towards Edale — travellers going north had told me as I journeyed south at first that the Dog Man was only three days ahead of me , then two days ahead of me , and then the final group of walkers had told me that it would n't be long before I caught him up . |
| 9 | The statutory outage on Reactor 1 was completed three days ahead of schedule in a total time of 6 weeks , 4 days … an excellent performance by everyone concerned . |
| 10 | The annual maintenance outage on Reactor 1 at Torness was completed three days ahead of schedule … and that means an extra 45 Gigawatt hours of production for the Company . |
| 11 | The unit was started up three days ahead of scheule and with no incidents . |
| 12 | So while his empire teetered , Mr Bond sailed on for more than three days incom-municado . |
| 13 | The Sun rejects Kinnock 's claim that the tabloids were responsible for Labour 's defeat , despite having said just that three days previously : ‘ It is flattering for him to suggest we have so much power . |
| 14 | Mikhail Gorbachev had returned to Moscow three days previously , after the failed coup , and , on the Saturday , resigned as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 15 | The immediate suspects of the murder were a local man and his son ; but both these men could not have had stronger alibis , for the father was in hospital after having an operation on his hip bone , while his son had three days previously been called into the Forces . |
| 16 | She remembered the time only three days previously when the Senior Scientific Officer of the instrument section bad let her look into the giant scanning electron microscope and watch the image of a minute pill of putty burst instantaneously into an exotic incandescent flower . |
| 17 | Those of the cast who remembered the euphoria of Taunton were disappointed , but they comforted themselves with the fact that they were at least on , something which three days previously had looked most unlikely . |
| 18 | Her tilted smile put the usual dent , something just less than a dimple , at the corner of her mouth as she pulled on a robe bought only three days previously , sumptuous emerald silk with an elaborate multicoloured dragon embroidered all over the back . |
| 19 | The Union Jack was fluttering proudly more than 29,000 feet above sea level , planted there by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay three days previously on May 30 . |
| 20 | Three days previously Lemos had publicly declared that the UP was the political arm of the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces ( FARC ) left-wing guerrilla group which had killed 17 soldiers on March 5 in a campaign to disrupt congressional and local elections [ see below ] . |
| 21 | Among the 21 people named were Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Kenya 's first Vice-President ( his son Raila Odinga was among six dissident intellectuals who were detained on July 5 ) ; another former Vice-President Josephat Karanja , who had been forced to resign in May 1989 [ see p. 36648 ] ; the writer Ngugi wa Thiongo ; an Anglican bishop , the Rev. Henry Okullu , who three days previously had called upon the government to resign ; and a lawyer , Gibson Kamau Kuria , who had earlier compared Moi with the late Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 22 | Three days previously he had abolished the post of chief of general staff , held by Vice-Adml . |
| 23 | Three days previously he had abolished the post of chief of general staff , held by Vice-Adml . |
| 24 | It contained four sheets of paper closely covered in unfamiliar handwriting , and it was a measure of how relaxed he was that it took him the best part of a minute to realise that he was holding a copy of the letter written by Ruggerio Miletti to his family three days previously . |
| 25 | So once again he rowed out to sea , and for three days neither ate nor fished . |
| 26 | Three days ago on our way up here we passed a field with two horses standing at a five-bar gate . |
| 27 | Only three days ago the American ambassador to Lebanon — who had evacuated his embassy , situated in Gen Aoun 's enclave , last September — paid a one-day visit from Washington to the Syrian-controlled north Lebanon to present his credentials to the new president . |
| 28 | Only three days ago the American ambassador to Lebanon — who had evacuated his embassy , situated in Gen Aoun 's enclave , last September — paid a one-day visit from Washington to the Syrian-controlled north Lebanon to present his credentials to the new president . |
| 29 | Mr Krenz 's resignation as head of state — he stepped down from the party leadership three days ago — signifies what could be a terminal crisis for the party , as it desperately advances its special congress by a week to find new faces . |
| 30 | He was in Northumberland with the wife 's mother for ten days , only got back three days ago . |