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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The time during which someone's life continues
Example:
in his final years
Synonyms:
days; years
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("days" is a kind of...):
life (the period from the present until death)
Context examples:
The days were not many after that when he sat at table with the scientific men and ship's officers.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
“I think nothing but iv my own skin, these days,” was his answer.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
“Yes,” he thought; “he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear.”
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
As for Ben Gunn, he got a thousand pounds, which he spent or lost in three weeks, or to be more exact, in nineteen days, for he was back begging on the twentieth.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Our journey here lost the interest arising from beautiful scenery, but we arrived in a few days at Rotterdam, whence we proceeded by sea to England.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
One thing led to another, and it ended in his inviting me out to spend a few days at his house, Wisteria Lodge, between Esher and Oxshott.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
With a half-life of 17 days, palladium 103 administered with brachytherapy allows continuous, tumor-site specific low-energy irradiation to the tumor cell population while sparing normal adjacent tissues from radiotoxicity.
(Palladium Pd-103, NCI Thesaurus)
Acute pancreatitis occurs suddenly and usually goes away in a few days with treatment.
(Pancreatitis, NIH: National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
I can see him as he was in those days with great, floundering, half-formed limbs like a Newfoundland puppy, and a face that set every woman’s head round as he passed her.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Did I not see him at Poictiers, when for two days we had not more than a crust of bread and a cup of foul water, yet carrying himself most valiantly.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
