Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] three days ' [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They were the citoyens who paid at least the equivalent of three days ' work in direct tax . |
| 3 | My birthday in three days ' time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I looked up into a bloated quivering face with three days ' growth of beard . |
| 6 | Forty years later William Hutton , who had once himself been a framework knitter , wrote that manufactures tended to decay when " plenty preponderates " , for a man who could support his family on three days ' labour would not work six . |