Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 2 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 3 | My mother went on an outing for a few days with the Blind Club . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I found out how well after a serious filter failure while away , but it did take a few days for the lethargic specimen to return to full health . |
| 6 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 7 | Certainly , Jacques passed on Green 's approbation of Barker 's attitude to Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith a few days after the late February meeting : |
| 8 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 9 | MANCHESTER United and Aston Villa are to play at Windsor Park on May 12 — a few days after the final fixtures in what has been a fiercely contested inaugural Premier League battle between them and Norwich City . |
| 10 | Had we reduced the dividend , our share price would have fallen sharply but , as I write a few days after the Annual General Meeting , the share price is a robust 180p — 26 times our earnings per share . |
| 11 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 12 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 13 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 14 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 15 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 16 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 17 | He and his family escaped just a few days before the Nazi invasion , abandoning all their property and possessions . |
| 18 | Only an historically trained scholar will be able to identify the likely internal structure of the name ‘ Johnny Turner ’ , of the ambiguous temporal expression ‘ a few days before the fair ’ , or of the relative place name ‘ five minutes away from Foorler 's house ’ . |
| 19 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
| 20 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |
| 21 | Extend the Taj Triangle Tour by spending a few days in the fascinating city of Kathmandu . |
| 22 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
| 23 | A few days in the wild world of rope knot protection , a chaotic grading system and unfamiliar rock had made us cautious . |
| 24 | If any holiday could be a tonic for both mind and body , a few days in the clean air and clear conscience of Saalbach-Hinterglemm has to be it . |