Example sentences of "or [adj] days ' time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier that day , Gorbachev had himself appeared to raise the possibility of his stepping down as general secretary at the CPSU congress when , clearly stung by the ferocity of the criticisms being levelled at him , he complained that " people are not taking the general secretary , the President of the country , very seriously " , and added : " It is not a question of me : tomorrow or in 10 or 12 days ' time someone else might be general secretary or party chairman . " |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And in two or three days ' time … |
| 4 | Take a single dose of Sulphur 30 but expect the thrush to get worse in three or four days ' time before it will get better . |
| 5 | For himself , he would take Sir Alexander Ramsay with him , since he knew the Borderland intimately , and hoped to rejoin the main army in three or four days ' time , God willing with Balliol either prisoner or dead . |