Example sentences of "two days ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liz sees the profit in investing two days ' selection time to hire a top-flight sales person . |
| 2 | This saving of time , together with our two days ' leave , gave us a full forty-eight hours at home . |
| 3 | Wendy and I saved up two days ' leave for New Year , and we decided to spend it with my cousin , through whom we had the marriage connection . |
| 4 | I represented this city at Florence at the cost of two days ' leave , and having my pocket picked at the station |
| 5 | There 's two days ' reading in that heap , easy . |
| 6 | It 's two days ' journey to London by horse , and Will talked all the way . |
| 7 | In 1966 , Peter Bogdanovich , by then an assistant director and part-time scriptwriter for Corman , was given his chance to direct a thriller called Targets in which Boris Karloff was cast because he still owed Corman two days ' work . |
| 8 | Feedback and evaluation of the two days ' work was made before the participants dispersed . |
| 9 | The two-year job as a member of South Glamorgan Health Authority is worth £5,000 a year , for two days ' work a month . |
| 10 | The price of ten shillings for a flight was two days ' pay for my father , so our pleasure was to watch and munch on salmon and cucumber sandwiches , never ever thinking that we might at some time aspire to those heights . |
| 11 | He had two days ' respite before Bella delivered her deathblows . |
| 12 | The curds of two days ' cheesemaking are mixed together before being milled and pressed . |
| 13 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 14 | the Arctic night , with no sunrise from 10 December to 3 January in these latitudes , tempted Admiral Hamilton to keep the strike force of eight destroyers and the cruiser HMS Arethusa in support of a prolonged visit , until a German bomb fell close to the cruiser , forcing the decision to withdraw after two days ' occupation . |
| 15 | the first two days ' golf featured a Pro/Am event , but it was the third and final day which captured the attention of the public . |
| 16 | Two days ' conversation |
| 17 | Following two days ' rest Venables and Renshaw set off for a final attempt taking a more direct line , avoiding sections of 70 degree snow and ice by passages of rock and mixed climbing . |
| 18 | The most popular announcement — from the boys ' point of view at least — was that of an extra two days ' holiday to mark the Anniversary . |
| 19 | I can , I might have two holidays now , two days ' holiday . |
| 20 | All these two days ' holiday and this , you 've had Christmas . |
| 21 | Yeah well two days ' holiday so |
| 22 | The fourth reported death was that of Agit Salman , a taxi driver who was detained on 27 April and died in Adana Police Headquarters on 29 April after two days ' interrogation . |
| 23 | The poem would arrive in two days ' time . |
| 24 | In two days ' time ( 7th May ) , it would be the forty-fifth anniversary of the final German surrender in the Second World War though the cease-fire was not to take effect until midnight on 8th May . |
| 25 | Word came back in two days ' time that Sigarup was getting better . |
| 26 | In two days ' time we reached Pakoku where many of the Anglo-Burmans begged me to disembark and try to walk out of Burma with them , but Rachel was still very sick and I said I would go on to Mandalay and hope to find a doctor there . |
| 27 | Gentle begged him to be a little more lenient , to which Klein said he 'd call Gentle 's studio in two days ' time , and if he received no answer would assume their deal was no longer valid . |
| 28 | Even so , it was hard to believe that his birthday in two days ' time would be only his twelfth . |
| 29 | So it was decided that Oliver would help Sikes with the robbery in two days ' time . |
| 30 | In two days ' time , she thought , she would actually see him . |