Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's only for another few days then I 'll sign off , ’ Dad promised . |
| 2 | They 're keeping him in hospital for another few days to carry out more tests . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , we can leave that for another few days , then I 'll see one of these film people the General mentioned . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Although she seemed not to be doing a lot of that these days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He flipped back the pages of his note-book , and found the scrappy diary of those few days . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | She hated even the slightest shadow to be cast over these few days . |
| 18 | ‘ But you would have thought that someone would have looked up over all those days . |
| 19 | On all these days Timothy Gedge appeared at the gate in the garden wall . |
| 20 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 21 | The days with one casualty were Sunday 6 January and Sunday 10 February ; on both these days there was snow and traffic volumes were observed to be lower than would have been expected had the weather been fine . |
| 22 | She had enough work for several more days and then after that , she would need to tramp around the streets seeking new customers . |
| 23 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 24 | I am not , after all , ’ she said , looking around her domain with a distinct smile , ‘ running a house of ill repute , which is what I fear the present title of Madame seems to suggest , along with bead curtains , red velvet plush love seats , champagne buckets and other such fittings and accoutrements which are not our style at all these days . |
| 25 | ‘ The trouble was his age , although 42 is no age at all these days . |
| 26 | It was only because it was so rare that Stair ever troubled with him at all these days that Neil felt compelled to go along with him , willy-nilly . |
| 27 | ‘ But we hardly see you at all these days . |
| 28 | Some required a brief period — at most several days — of off-the.job training . |