Marianne had been two or three days at home, before the weather was fine enough for an invalid like herself to venture out.
Three days' rations had been brought up from Grand Gulf for the advanced troops and were issued.
For two or three days after I was unable to walk except with crutches.
I have myself been detained two or three days at a place after steam was up, the gang planks, all but one, drawn in, and after the time advertised for starting had expired.
Two or three days after my arrival at Cape Girardeau, word came that General Prentiss was approaching that place (Jackson).
We have been here,' said Mrs. Micawber, 'three days.
It was not long after that--not more than two or three days--when he gave me the first intimation of what I tell you.
In two or three days more, I was informed by the authorities of his having led to the discovery of sirloins of beef among the kitchen-stuff, and sheets in the rag-bag.
The news of the disaster to the well had traveled far by this time; and now for two or three days a steady avalanche of people had been pouring into the valley.
But I did not want Merlin to retire from the job until I was ready to take hold of it effectively myself; and I could not do that until I got my things from Camelot, and that would take two or three days.
Three days after he had sent his letter there arrived one from Gordon himself, informing Bernard that he had suddenly determined to bring Blanche to Europe.
His sister standing afar off, and taking notice what would be done.
Two or three days passed by in much the same manner as the first.
The governor offered him a convict, Stepan Pelageushkine, to accompany him on his journey.
When we came back to our waiting room, the Young Empress said to me that Her Majesty was very much worried for the poor farmers and that she would pray for rain, and stop eating meat for two or three days.
Then she said: "I am sorry to see you go although I know you are coming back within two or three days.
Then she asked me how long I would like to stay at home, and of course I knew the custom, and told her that I was waiting for her orders: "Would two or three days be enough?
This made Her Majesty angry and she ordered the offender to go to her room and stay there for three days, saying that she did not deserve to be enjoying herself if she could not stand a little thing like that.
When Sapor had taken Amida, after a siege of seventy-three days, the autumn was far advanced.
Thirty thousand of his veterans had fallen under the walls of Amida, during the continuance of a siege, which lasted seventy-three days; and the disappointed monarch returned to his capital with affected triumph and secret mortification.
He built a church and college to it, with a yearly allowance to poor scholars, and near it erected a hospital.
She then related how she had heard it; so that from all circumstances, he had no reason to doubt the truth of what she said.
I had been at the seminary from nine years old; in three days I should have been twenty.
My husband had been at liberty these two or three days.
They will believe he is arrested, and that will give him time; inthree days I will tell them who I am, and they cannot fail to let me go.
Hamilcar had speedily reassured them by declaring that there was enough water left in the cisterns for one hundred and twenty-three days.
He told Spendius that if Hamilcar did not arrive in three days he would go with all his men to meet him and offer him battle.
It had accomplished the journey from Sicca in three days, in order to reach Carthage and wholly exterminate it.
Then they exclaimed that they had been deceived, and that if their pay did not arrive within three days, they would themselves go and take it in Carthage.
As well as he could make out he was unclad, with a thick black beard, long tangled hair, and bare legs and feet, his thighs were covered by breeches apparently of tawny velvet but so ragged that they showed his skin in several places.
Nor was this all, for Don Quixote had perceived that the dead body on the catafalque was that of the fair Altisidora.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three days" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
