Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] [art] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 2 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 3 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 4 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 5 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 6 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 7 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
| 8 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 9 | The owner has been calling by every few days to check on progress , but now is in Barbados . |
| 10 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 11 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 12 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 14 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 15 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |
| 16 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 17 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 18 | He told the owner of the pensione that he would probably be leaving in a few days and then he made his way to the station to ask about trains . |
| 19 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |
| 20 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 21 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 22 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 23 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 24 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 25 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
| 26 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 27 | Where a slight flow of water is guaranteed for a few days , for example in crevices and gullies that conduct snow-melt trickles , mosses gather among the lichens . |
| 28 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |
| 29 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 30 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |