Example sentences of "a few days or [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 2 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 3 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 4 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 5 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |