Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] a [det] day [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 2 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 3 | On I had a half day on Wednesday |
| 4 | Had we reduced the dividend , our share price would have fallen sharply but , as I write a few days after the Annual General Meeting , the share price is a robust 180p — 26 times our earnings per share . |
| 5 | The woman told me that they normally like you to book a few days in advance so that you have some time to think it over in case you wanted to change your mind . |
| 6 | You see , with costs like this , even if you take a few days off you 're a million quid in the hole ! ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres . |
| 8 | And then we stayed a few days in London and we went to the Baths and we went to the zoo and we went to all the science , by either the old trams or the first of the buses that Cos they complete with tram-riding and that was rather exciting in London , seeing the all the top hats and people in coats , tails and things . |
| 9 | From Winnipeg — where he had to work a bootlegging ruse to get a drink — he hitched to New York to stay with some friends of Philip : they were in Vermont and so he busked a few days in Manhattan , perhaps even sang for his supper in Greenwich Village . |
| 10 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 11 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |