Example sentences of "[prep] a few day of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
| 2 | But , within a couple of months of coming to the throne , Siraj-ud-Daula marched on Calcutta , seized and plundered it after a few days of frantic but ill-prepared resistance , and allowed the few British survivors of the seige to be locked up in the prison of the fortress for the night . |
| 3 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 4 | They grew with his reading of Frazer who described the ‘ Burnt Land of Lydia ’ contrasting with the surrounding verdure and marvelled ( in the conclusion of The Dying God ) at ‘ what may be called the Australian spring ’ where ‘ the sandy and stony wilderness , over which the silence and desolation of death appear to brood , is suddenly , after a few days of torrential rain , transformed into a landscape smiling with verdure ’ . |
| 5 | Indeed , if anything , modern societies seem bent on compounding the problem by considerably lengthening and complicating adolescence — a period of life which , as we have seen , barely exists in totemic societies where individuals go from childhood to adulthood via a few days of traumatic initiation . |