Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] 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 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 5 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 7 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 10 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 11 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 16 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Suspecting a mild heart attack , his doctor had him admitted to hospital but tests were negative and he was discharged after a few days . |
| 22 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 23 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 24 | It was left behind a few days ago , Ramsbum does n't know by whom , and no one 's claimed it . ’ |
| 25 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |