Example sentences of "was eight days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 2 | Again in 1727 " We was eight days at Twitenham . |
| 3 | The third time he was eight days in an open boat before they picked him up , near dying of exposure , and his nerve gone . |
| 4 | It was eight days since they had last lain on the bed together , and sex seemed as far away now as then . |
| 5 | It was eight days almost to the minute since the undertaker had arrived at the house on stilts and rung the doorbell for the last time . |
| 6 | It states that Aksum was eight days ' journey inland from Adulis , a port on the Red Sea established by Greek traders sent by the Ptolemys to bring back elephants to be trained for war . |
| 7 | And that was n't the first day , that was eight days er eight days solid from Sunday to the Monday following Monday . |
| 8 | According to a CBI survey , preliminary results of which will be announced in London tomorrow , the average number of days lost for every worker in both the public and private sectors through sickness last year was eight days . |