Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former Community Charge was payable on a variety of days depending on the payment method used and this procedure has been carried forward to Council Tax . |
| 2 | You 'll see a change within days . |
| 3 | In two cases , the user was locked in a bedroom for days at a time . |
| 4 | And with a team of assassins awaiting Jamel Mobuto 's arrival in America , it would only be a question of days before Tito Ngune was inaugurated as the new President of Zimbala . |
| 5 | Hauge is the man who brouht most of the scandivians to england and should be able to fix this ( he brought Limpar , Thorstvedt , Strandli , Flo ++ ) — i guess it 's just a question of days now ? ? |
| 6 | But surely you 're not so naïve that you ca n't understand that for any normal man to be in close contact with a girl for days on end without wanting her is damned impossible ? ’ |
| 7 | But what will be the effect of extending the interval to a period of days or even weeks ? |
| 8 | Barbel fishing in the early days , and I am talking to more than a hundred years ago , was very popular amongst the gentry , who used to employ a man to bait a swim with thousands of lobworms over a period of days , sometimes weeks . |
| 9 | Bargaining is often carried out over a period of days , so it 's fortunate that a four- night B&B break at a three-star hotel near the market , is £219 in February and March . |
| 10 | Over a period of days or even hours , pollution concentrations may rise to levels which pose a threat to people 's health . |
| 11 | Over a period of days . |
| 12 | The romantic look is essentially a feminine style — a reminder of days gone by and an escape from life 's worries . |
| 13 | Often we 'd stalk a herd for days on end , and all that time we 'd never even catch a glimpse . |
| 14 | The alcoholic may be able to do without a drink for days . |
| 15 | They must have felt the need for a farmer 's almanac and so started to keep a tally of days , which they recorded with special symbols . |
| 16 | he went on , ‘ the one that they carried home and looked after like a baby for days until , in the end , it died . |
| 17 | Even the worst of gags will amuse some wally somewhere , though , so here are a few just in case you are ever unlucky enough to be trapped in a lift for days on end with him . |
| 18 | Summer seemed to have flitted by in a space of days . |
| 19 | Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey ; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal . |
| 20 | Royal Horticultural Society 1994 Diary ( £9.99 inc VAT ) , RHS Address Book ( £9.99 in VAT ) and The Country Garden : A Book of Days ( £10.99 ) |
| 21 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |
| 22 | 5 Airborne Brigade is the Army 's ‘ Instant Readiness ’ Force , and is able to deploy anywhere in the world in a matter of days . |
| 23 | A matter of days after his home-coming party , David was back on tour , this time in the UK . |
| 24 | A nuclear war could only last a matter of days and would be fought with the weapons that were in the hands of the military at the time ; there would be no question of re-supply , so British operational independence would not be jeopardized by buying US missiles . |
| 25 | Earlier this week the management was confidently expecting firm production orders within a matter of days . |
| 26 | It was technically already unnecessary , for money for both lethal and humanitarian aid had been voted by Congress a matter of days before . |
| 27 | Travel — Holidays On The Move : On an old boat to Luxor Tom Pocock cruises down the Nile and finds himself becoming an Egyptologist in a matter of days |
| 28 | The air was full of the smell of burning documents , and in some quarters there was talk that the Germans would be on the Nile within a matter of days . |
| 29 | The town of Heimaey in Iceland was buried under basaltic tephra in a matter of days after the commencement of the eruption of the volcano Helgafell in 1973 . |
| 30 | If you will spend just ten or fifteen minutes a day practising a simple relaxation technique , you will begin to feel the benefit within a matter of days . |