Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | For eleven more days Coleridge remained at Shrewsbury , elated by his sudden freedom from ‘ all pecuniary anxieties ’ , and longing to be home in Somerset . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's only for another few days then I 'll sign off , ’ Dad promised . |
| 3 | They 're keeping him in hospital for another few days to carry out more tests . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Ah , we can leave that for another few days , then I 'll see one of these film people the General mentioned . |
| 5 | After three such days the night nurse told us she thought that Caroline and I were exciting him and that it would be better if we went home and merely visited during the day . |
| 6 | The larva moults to give rise to the four-legged nymph , which , after five more days , becomes the adult mite . |
| 7 | A third followed after two more days , when Sergeant Joe visited Mr Singleton in his shop in Charing Cross Road and produced two letters ostensibly written by the Duke of Wellington on the eve of Waterloo . |
| 8 | Having said the BMC made a bad move getting involved , the fact remains that access is now a major issue for mountain users ; not due to the traditional problems of a landowner barring access — there is much less of that these days . |
| 9 | Although she seemed not to be doing a lot of that these days . |
| 10 | She would make the best of these few days up here , work and yet take time to relax and most of all to forget Fernando Serra . |
| 11 | Liam thought long afterwards of the strangeness of those few days , and how he was brought back from what was to be a trip to America , just in time to arrange his own father 's funeral . |
| 12 | He flipped back the pages of his note-book , and found the scrappy diary of those few days . |
| 13 | It meant a delay of two more days before deciding what to do next , and she was reluctant to wait so long . |
| 14 | This from a man who had little interest in the event when he went up to Magdalene College last autumn to study transport and marketing — and the Boat Race is a triumph of both these days . |
| 15 | He pulled up a high stool and stood , his bottom propped on the stool , which he used like a shooting stick , his painting posture for these latter days . |
| 16 | Mr Major , EC president for 11 more days , has to wrestle with difficult issues like Denmark , which voted against Maastricht in a referendum , and plans from Brussels for a massive increase in spending . |
| 17 | With two more days of sunshine forecast , there wo n't be a better place to be this week than at New Road . |
| 18 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 19 | I do n't mean for his fear to be confirmed — that he was sightless ; the unspoken query which hovered over us for those few days . |
| 20 | Scudamore has reached the half century in 12 fewer days than during last season 's fantastic voyage into jumping history . |
| 21 | In those few days between seeing my surgeon and going back to the X-ray department I went up to that chapel two or three times a day , I did my visualizations with all the intensity that I could summons . |
| 22 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
| 23 | It was just eighty-eight days since he had recaptured his capital of Paris , yet in those few days he had shown the world how an emperor made armies . |
| 24 | Strange , she had been in Denmark for so short a time yet in those few days she had learned so much , not only about herself but about a country she had never even considered visiting before Suzie 's escapade . |
| 25 | Maybe petty cash only came in fifties these days . |
| 26 | Iago had brought him , and Iago should have been here within two more days to take him away , somewhat recovered now and strong enough to continue his flight into Wales . |
| 27 | On radio , in final few days of the campaign to elect America 's 42nd President , they still found time to talk to Stephen Kaplin , a vampire and head of the oldest vampire institute in the world . |
| 28 | An unnamed sympathiser informed Joyce that the Emergency Powers would become effective in two more days , on Saturday 26 August . |
| 29 | 2,500 tons of food is at risk from shelling … if nothing is done , we will stop deliveries in two more days because we do n't have any place to put it . ’ |
| 30 | I did wonder whether we ought to call a , a , a , sort of emergency meeting of Harlow Health Action , but I was away myself until last few days , so it 's difficult to do that , so what we 've are , I 've agreed with Dave , the secretary , we 've produced a leaflet , which is based on one of the Federations leaflet , it gives the reason to be against opting out . |