Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] few day [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 2 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 3 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 4 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 5 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 6 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 7 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 8 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 9 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |