days are numbered

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somebody's/something's days are numbered

if someone's or something's days are numbered, they will not exist for much longer As our local cinema struggles to survive, it seems clear that its days are numbered.

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My life is shaken to its roots; sleep has left me; the deadliest terror sits by me at all hours of the day and night; and I feel that my days are numbered, and that I must die; and yet I shall die incredulous. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context My brethren, I thank you, but my days are numbered, nay, even my hours, and I have but little longer to live. Five Weeks in a Balloon by Verne, Jules View in context			Davy Jones's locker dawdle dawdle about dawdle along dawdle away dawdle over dawn dawn on day day after day day and night day by day day in and day out day in, day out day late and a dollar short day of reckoning day off day one day person day-to-day day-tripper daydream about daylight daylight robbery days days are numbered days on end days running de facto de rigeur de trop dead dead ahead dead and buried dead and gone dead as a dodo dead as a doornail dead broke dead cat on the line dead center dead certain dead drunk dead duck dead easy dead from the neck up dead giveaway dead in or an animal's tracks dead in the water dead letter dead loss dead meat			Days After Contract Days After Contract Award Days After Date Days After Draining Days After Emergence Days After Flowering Days After Harvest Days after Hatching Days after Initial Treatment Days After Inoculation Days After Option Days After Panicle Emergence Days After Panicle Initiation Days After Planting Days After Receipt of Comments Days After Receipt of Order Days After Seeding/Sowing Days After Sequential Treatment Days After Straw Application Days After Tasking Days After Term Award Days After Test Completion Days After Transplanting Days After Treatment days are numbered Days At Sea Days Away From Work Days Away from Work Case Frequency Days Away from Work Injury and Illness Days Away, Restricted or Transferred Days Before Harvest/Heading Days Before Inoculation Days Before Panicle Emergence Days Before Panicle Initiation Days Before Seeding Days Before Transplanting Days Between Dates Days Beyond Terms Days Billing Outstanding Days Claims Payable Days Delay Enroute Authorized As Leave Days Delay Enroute Chargeable As Leave Days End Farm Horse Rescue, Inc. Days from Planting Days Hath September Days in a Week Days in bank Days in bank Days in Inventory Days in Milk

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