Example sentences of "three days ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the best examples of a reasonably-priced winter weekend is a two-night stay at the three-star Le Bristol Hotel in Le Touquet , near Boulogne , with three days ' golf at the celebrated courses of Le Touquet , Hardelot and Wimereux , plus return cross-Channel Seacat travel with your own car , all for an incredible £145 a person . |
| 2 | But the question we must ask is why so many British workers are getting a two-week break when other European workers are making do with just three days ' holiday . |
| 3 | No he 's got three days ' holiday . |
| 4 | This 1pc increase will mean the highest earner will pay the biggest increase , for example a taxpayer earning £50,000 a year will pay an extra £500 , representing just three days ' pay per year for someone earning £1,000 a week . |
| 5 | After three days ' imprisonment they were convicted of attending an illegal gathering under the terms of Bophuthatswana 's Internal Security Act , fined , and released from custody . |
| 6 | three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life . |
| 7 | Each enemy plane shot down brought the victor three days ' leave , and a palm-leaf to add to his ribbons . |
| 8 | There were only four such murder cases ( discounting the M4 Rapist case , which we consider separately ) where there was more than three days ' coverage or where more than five newspapers included reports of the search . |
| 9 | The only other case where there was the suggestion of an explicitly sexual motive and which had more than three days ' coverage was the murder of a 9-year-old boy which was reported in two national newspapers — the Daily Mail ( on three days ) ; the Daily Mirror ( on one day ) — and much fuller coverage in the local newspaper , the Lancashire Evening Post . |
| 10 | After three days ' disappearance following the sheep-eating incident , the eagle was seen again for certain on a telegraph pole outside the village of Lutterworth near Leicester by a passing motorist , Mrs Gillian Cook . |
| 11 | Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole . |
| 12 | The smuggled letters take three days ' journey to Rabat from the prison : some never arrive . |
| 13 | Three days ' journey on into the desert are hurried over in a verse , and then the people run out of water . |
| 14 | ‘ Three days ' journey , four ? ’ |
| 15 | The parish covers a huge area with some communities two or three days ' journey away and seeing a priest only three or four times a year . |
| 16 | Benson died after only three days ' illness 5 July 1924 at his cottage , Castle Corner , in Manorbier , Pembrokeshire . |
| 17 | I knew all these ; had already played with them in my mind , from the most inconsequential ( Mickey Spillane 's ‘ another three days ' work never hurt anyone' ) to the most tragic : the story of Joseph de Jussieu and his search for the fever tree . |
| 18 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 19 | Thatcher gets £250,000 for three days ' work |
| 20 | The woman who let Britain slide into the worst depression since the 30s was paid £250,000 last week for just three days ' work on a lecture tour . |
| 21 | The outcome of perhaps three days ' work is often no more than ten points on a flip chart , and we would consider that a good rate of striking . |
| 22 | Not a bad three days ' work all in all . |
| 23 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 24 | One classic example was of a girl getting a pound fine and losing three days ' remission for giving another girl a cigarette paper . |
| 25 | At Georgetown , Toyota keeps three days ' worth of stocks of imported parts , compared with 1.5 days ' worth of American parts — or four hours ' worth at its Japanese plants . |
| 26 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 27 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 28 | If you push yourself to your absolute limits and suffer terribly , the chances that you will be able to motivate yourself to suffer equally in two or three days ' time are practically zilch . |
| 29 | Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time . |
| 30 | 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 . |