Example sentences of "a few days [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 2 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |
| 3 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 4 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 5 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 6 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
| 7 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 8 | But this means that the soil for seed-sowing can be done simply by covering a patch for a few days with a sheet of polythene anchored by bricks or stones — in the absence , of course , of cloches . |
| 9 | John went over to Mosquito Island where he has established James for a few days with a government tent , man and fitting-up . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 11 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
| 12 | Then he covered it up quickly with a look of studied indifference ( very unconvincing ) and mumbled some nonsense about you being in hospital for a few days for a check-up . |
| 13 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
| 14 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |