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单词 this many a day
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this many a day (year, etc.)
f. Used instead of these pron. and adj. 3 to modify a plural noun or numeral; esp. (now only) with a plural treated as a singular (e.g. means, odds), or with a numeral expression denoting a period of time taken as a whole (in this case usually = ‘just past or completed’, or more rarely ‘just beginning’). So also this many a day (year, etc.) = these many days, this period of many days (etc.) just past.The earlier evidence is often doubtful from the fact that this was long one of the forms of these: see γ. forms at these pron. and adj.
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the world > time > relative time > immediacy > [adjective] > this period of time (in immediate past or future)
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c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) (1978) l. 13136 Þis [c1275 Calig. þeos] þreo cnihtes bolde.]
c1450 Cov. Myst. (1841) xiv. 132 More..Than evyr ther was this thowsand ȝere.
c1475 (?c1425) Avowing of King Arthur (1984) l. 1097 Þoȝhe ȝe sege þis seuyn ȝere, Castell gete ȝe none here.
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ix. 7 Whan the quene hard thys tidyngis.
1550 T. Cranmer Def. Sacrament sig. *ivv Where-with they haue this many yeares deluded and bewitched the world.
1578–1600 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 164 This lang and mony ane day.
1596 T. Danett tr. P. de Commynes Hist. vi. vii. 225 Which will bleed this many a yeere.
1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. ii. 24 Within this three houres will faire Iuliet wake. View more context for this quotation
1779 Mirror No. 55. ⁋7 By this means..even the worthiest men..may be led into fatal errors.
1832 R. Southey Ess. I. 9 Unless there be something to weigh against this fearful odds.
1867 J. Ruskin Time & Tide xv. 92 The silence has kept my own heart heavy this many a day.
1883 L. Oliphant Altiora Peto II. 261 This last six months.
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