Example sentences of "be a few days " in BNC.

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1 Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Usually , it is preferable if there are a few days of further careful assessment of the patient before such steps are taken .
5 Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 And it will be a few days before anyone scores a goal through these posts in Hereford .
10 No I never thought that they will be a few days !
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college .
16 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 .
17 So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago .
18 But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday .
19 Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon .
20 Certainly more confident now than it was a few days ago .
21 What got in the press last week in fact was a few days late , it had all been sorted out .
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