Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] few 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 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 .
5 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 .
6 He flipped back the pages of his note-book , and found the scrappy diary of those few days .
7 Whatever Coleridge 's precise setting during those few days , the autumn landscape of Culbone drew from him an immediate poetic response .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 She wondered again what her grandfather 's thoughts and feelings had been in those few days at Dudley House .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 She hated even the slightest shadow to be cast over these few days .
16 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 .
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