Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then it was only two days , then just one day more . |
| 2 | … the festival of Passover and Unleavened Bread was only two days off ( Mark 14:1 ) . |
| 3 | The mourning observed for Jacob was only two days shorter than that for a pharaoh . |
| 4 | It was only two days ago that she had decided to come and now , as she stood there in the spring sunshine , she could hardly believe she had allowed this to happen . |
| 5 | The pile of messages that greeted Loretta when she arrived at her college just after twelve next day was a sure sign that the beginning of term was only two days away . |
| 6 | It was only two days since she had sat in this same seat and dribbled raindrops everywhere . |
| 7 | The official campaign period was only 10 days . |
| 8 | Well , it was only five days ago , was n't it ? |
| 9 | Jessie had said a fortnight , but it was only nine days since she had broken the awful news to her . |
| 10 | The baby — you — was only ten days old . |
| 11 | Freddy was only ten days old when he was found abandoned . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It was only three days . |
| 14 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 15 | It was only three days since they had spoken , and they were not particularly close friends . |
| 16 | , second Duke of Cumberland and King George V of Hanover ( 1819–1878 ) , was born in Berlin 27 May 1819 , and was thus three days younger than his cousin , Queen Victoria . |
| 17 | Indeed , he was away three days . |
| 18 | This was just five days after his seventeenth birthday , and in the first weeks of his first term in Cape Town , so there was cause for excitement . |
| 19 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 20 | The war itself was just three days . |
| 21 | When Panna was just twenty days old , the village midwife disclosed that she was neither male nor female , that she was a hijra . |
| 22 | I remember when I married him but I do n't remember when I met him , although I know it was just ten days between the two occasions . |
| 23 | It was still early days but he stressed they were still committed to the scheme and had confidence in its future . |
| 24 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 25 | This was sufficiently close to the sidereal orbital period of 87.97 days for it to be generally concluded that Mercury was in synchronous rotation around the Sun , and therefore that the sidereal axial period was also 87.97 days . |
| 26 | She had stayed in the cellar for what she thought was about three days and then realised that she had n't felt the vibration of gunfire for some time , perhaps a day and a night . |
| 27 | And the meeting was about ten days ago or something like that . |
| 28 | It kept her mind off her own — like the disturbing fact that her period was now several days late . |
| 29 | It was now three days since Bill Holroyd had promised to bring her ten thousand pounds and by now she must realize the likelihood of his appearance was decreasing . |
| 30 | ‘ But why did n't you tell me about it when I was here two days ago ? ’ |