Example sentences of "be a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been a nine days ' wonder , during which no charges had been brought , but Travis had told her to her face that he knew she had taken it . |
| 2 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 3 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 4 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
| 5 | Usually , it is preferable if there are a few days of further careful assessment of the patient before such steps are taken . |
| 6 | Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old . |
| 7 | She was sure the neighbourhood would initially be outraged at her living alone , despite the presence of more servants than she knew what to do with , but she was proof against their opinion and she would only be a nine days ' wonder in any case . |
| 8 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 9 | If she could then convince Rainald that it might be a few days before she was granted another opportunity to meet him , and if she could discover how many spies the Empress had in Winchester , the precious time gained might be used to save Edmund . |
| 10 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
| 11 | And it will be a few days before anyone scores a goal through these posts in Hereford . |
| 12 | No I never thought that they will be a few days ! |
| 13 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
| 14 | He stretches and stifles a yawn , there 's a few days stubble on his jowl , hair thin but shaggy , eyes peering briefly above the rim of his sunglasses , suede fringes swaying from his jacket as he roams the room before plonking into a chair . |
| 15 | erm John Major has n't yet done that , but the poor chap 's only been in office a hundred days , I mean this is a hundred days today . |
| 16 | In the Antarctic lower stratosphere , for solar zenith angles typical of late autumn and early spring , the lifetime of HNO 3 against photolysis is many weeks , whereas that of N 2 O 5 is a few days . |
| 17 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
| 18 | I do n't think he had much of a reputation : he was a nine days ’ wonder — if that — just before the war . |
| 19 | So that was a whole days work often . |
| 20 | Well nobody wanted them jobs because it was a seven days ' a week job . |
| 21 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
| 22 | The train going west to Prague was empty and unheated , and arrived two hours late at a different station ; but the weather in Bohemia was a few days ahead of Olomouc and the capital was clear and bright . |
| 23 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 24 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |
| 25 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
| 26 | Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago . |
| 27 | What got in the press last week in fact was a few days late , it had all been sorted out . |
| 28 | It was a hard days work when you went up and down a drill like that , lift the neep and yeuk lift the neep and yeuk and hope you get |