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thousand days

noun

, (used with a plural verb)
  1. the presidential administration of John F. Kennedy, which lasted 1037 days (January 20, 1961, to November 22, 1963).


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To his credit, he seemed to enjoy the years out of power as much as his thousand days.

His 1965 book, A Thousand Days, retains its vigor, and has never been excelled as a study of those years.

In the meantime, we have a thousand days and nights of watching Obama be president.

Harry refers to his “Enchantress of our Twenty Thousand Days.”

Eleven hundred days make up about three years; consequently, eleven thousand days make up thirty years.

Another example: an angel so large that the distance between his eyes was seventy thousand days' journey.

It would last until the thousand days were accomplished, and there would still be much left.

How many thousand days of "safety" he must have brought to the Guildford prisoners!

One thousand days to build a bridge to a land of new promise.

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