Example sentences of "[prep] the few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 2 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 3 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 4 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 5 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 6 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 7 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 8 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 9 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 10 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 11 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 12 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 13 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 14 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 15 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |