Example sentences of "in [adj] days [unc] " in BNC.

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1 Details of these were given out at the April training day and included in that days ' notes .
2 Airdrie 0 Hearts 0 AFTER one of the least memorable Scottish Cup semi-finals on record , Airdrie and Hearts played out a soulless , goalless draw and must meet again in 10 days ' time to decide who will challenge Rangers on May 9 .
3 New Zealand won a place in the challengers ' final against Il Moro di Venezia in 10 days ' time by defeating France 's Ville de Paris in the penultimate semi-final race .
4 Erm but in these days erm I think that managements were in the main er fairly well off as far as employees ' attitudes were concerned .
5 Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time .
6 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 .
7 It was eighty-five miles to Orange , a distance we hoped to cover in three days ' marching .
8 He was going to return in three days ' time , and had invited a large number of ladies and gentlemen to stay for several days .
9 On returning to Rome , Thomas went again to the curia and the pope informed him that the case would begin in three days ' time .
10 My birthday in three days ' time .
11 The therapist agreed to see Pamela as in outpatient in 5 days ' time to provide her with a further chance to talk about her difficulties and also to provide her with support .
12 The European champions , who host the first leg in 11 days ' time , have lost Ruud Gullit and Marco Van Basten and are struggling for form .
13 Erm of which were there were many in those days er , not so many today of course but er er ooh I should say there were probably on Vale which was our nearest sort of shopping area to where we lived , there were probably two or three erm shoe repairers , including , and you could go and buy leather there .
14 Well in those days er there was n't much me much er coal cutting machine , this was all hewn by hand .
15 Because e even in those days er it , it was n't , there 'd be good training hospitals and not so good .
16 One afternoon a flying fortress which had come off worse on the mission over Germany tried to land at Walsall , which was much too small to take an aircraft of this size , and the girl in the control box had to find , fire a warning vary light and radio to send him off to Castle Bromwich which was much bigger in those days er it was an airport to take an aircraft the size of the Flying Fortress that 's about it up until here I 've written
17 In fact I think in in those days er it 's mostly the local men that
18 What about er , in those days er , possibly a few still , when erm let's , you said gypsies did n't you ?
19 R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + +
20 You could n't get in those days d during the war you see .
21 And in those days erm I , the Co-op had got a building society as well you see , so it all tied up and I think mother , you know , I , I think it was a very good shop , I mean it was er so .
22 Anyway , if I could just erm describe how I managed to get there in the first place , which was all a matter of luck I suppose as much as anything erm I went to the East Anglian schools for erm blind and deaf children at Gorleston on Sea from nineteen twenty eight to nineteen thirty six , erm , in those days erm education for the er disabled er continued until sixteen .
23 There were , there was , there was n't any runway it was just a grass airfield as there was a lot of them in those days erm this , this is why they , they could n't get any aircraft of any size in there you see , this is why some of them used to overshoot if they got twin engines before the war erm
24 But in those days th they did n't .
25 In those days th there was a great do about babies sleeping in a room on their own .
26 You see in those days i people i servants were so you could get servants so easily ev even if you did n't have somebody living in er you , you 'd have a daily person .
27 Well they always started the lads right at the pit bottom and in those days ev everybody was crackers down there in those days , they were all mad , tearing about .
28 ‘ Your birthday 's in five days ' time . ’
29 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 .
30 Emergency party congress in nine days ' time .
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