Example sentences of "have a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 2 | Sometimes electric shock treatment his been given to quell the uproar and the ensuing calm gives the adult the opportunity to reassert itself and the tormented soul can have a few days of peace . |
| 3 | He thinks perhaps I might have a few days away from here . |
| 4 | Okay , do n't forget to have a few days break over Christmas , do n't work all the time , have a jolly good time . |
| 5 | I liked to have a few days out in Middlesbrough , Sunderland or Newcastle but now I ca n't do this anymore and I 'm stuck in Hartlepool . ’ |
| 6 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 7 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 8 | The news was relayed to the restive citizens that they had a few days ' respite . |
| 9 | He said he had a few days ’ work for me , five hundred and expenses . |
| 10 | He had a few days growth of stubble but something about him was fundamentally clean cut . |
| 11 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |
| 12 | She looked at her friend and wanted to ask whether she had a few days to spare , because that was how long any description of him would take . |
| 13 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |
| 14 | We have a few days to go to that looking into it now , so if , you know . |
| 15 | So you , well then you 'll still not know what you 're going out with because you still have a few days from last week to get . |