Example sentences of "three days ' " in BNC.

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1 The smuggled letters take three days ' journey to Rabat from the prison : some never arrive .
2 Its paper was to be presented to a Market Research Society seminar last March when , with three days ' notice , the health department instructed the authors to withdraw it .
3 Gudok reckoned that there would be only two to three days ' reserve for the railways as a whole .
4 It will include the personal weapon , three days ' rations and ammunition , along with as much water as can be carried , and also nuclear , biological and chemical warfare equipment , since the enemy is known to have a chemical weapons capability .
5 I 'd come 7,000 miles at three days ' notice — and for what ? ’
6 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 .
7 Three days ' journey on into the desert are hurried over in a verse , and then the people run out of water .
8 Stopping for lunch near Messkirch , en route for Ulm , I discovered that my three days ' neglect of the groceries in the car boot , together with the intense heat , had reduced some of them to a suppurating , soggy mess .
9 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 .
10 three days ' leave , and a chance for the first time in many months to reflect on life .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax .
14 Stonehouse 's bill was due for a second reading in three days ' time .
15 I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard .
16 Three days ' journey , four ? ’
17 Sangenic can take about three days ' supply of soiled nappies before it needs emptying .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 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 .
21 However , since menstrual cycles can be irregular First Response has a refill kit to enable a further three days ' tests , which allows nine out of 10 ovulating women to detect their surge .
22 Thatcher gets £250,000 for three days ' work
23 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 .
24 Employees at Henry Sykes and Guardian Royal Exchange Assurance have three days ' special leave .
25 In addition , employees may be granted up to a maximum of three days ' special leave .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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