Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 2 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 3 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
| 4 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 5 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 6 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 7 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 8 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |