Example sentences of "for a few days " in BNC.
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| 31 | Before term started I wanted to live anonymously in this city where no one knew me , just for a few days . |
| 32 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 33 | I was terrified that if I criticized him he would take offence and leave me , if not permanently , then for a few days , without giving me a sign of life , and so leaving me in anguish . |
| 34 | My mother went on an outing for a few days with the Blind Club . |
| 35 | The old man had gone to stay with relatives for a few days , and Dorothy wondered if I would water her houseplants , because he ( Leo ) wanted to spend all the time he could with her at the hospital . |
| 36 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
| 37 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 38 | You let things lapse for a few days more . |
| 39 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 40 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
| 41 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 42 | She goes off to the city for a few days , but then she is back . |
| 43 | But this means that the soil for seed-sowing can be done simply by covering a patch for a few days with a sheet of polythene anchored by bricks or stones — in the absence , of course , of cloches . |
| 44 | The snow is so deep — three metres outside the door here — that after big storms , potentially dangerous ski areas remain inaccessible for a few days . |
| 45 | For a few days , to use a word for which she has a penchant , Mrs Thatcher ‘ wobbled ’ . |
| 46 | Just as I had n't minded when asked if I would like to take care of Jeffrey Bernard for a few days while he was in Sydney to promote the play about himself , Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell , which is currently playing here . |
| 47 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 48 | Although the females ' ranges are smaller than those of individual males they overlap those of several of them and may therefore turn up in more than one male community ; females in oestrus range widely , consorting with a male for a few days . |
| 49 | The mother 's death is portrayed in a macabre scene where Walter is unsure whether she has died , or even what death is , and allows the corpse to rot for a few days while he sits by her side . |
| 50 | Periodically Utrillo was allowed out of the asylum for a few days and occasionally he escaped . |
| 51 | He is away for a few days , in the country . ’ |
| 52 | ‘ We thought we would only be away from our village for a few days , ’ she said . |
| 53 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 54 | Why do n't you take the car and drive off somewhere for a few days ? |
| 55 | Take my advice , get out the house for a few days . ’ |
| 56 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 57 | The rash may be barely visible , and may only be present for a few days , or it may be widespread and obvious and persist for many weeks . |
| 58 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 59 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 60 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |