Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [art] few 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 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
4 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
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 . |