Example sentences of "a [adj] days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
| 2 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
| 3 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 4 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 5 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 6 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
| 7 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 8 | In a few days we shall announce our exact demands which must be fulfilled before we release Liam Shakespeare . |
| 9 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 10 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
| 11 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
| 12 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
| 13 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
| 14 | Within a few days she had recovered enough to play practice chukkas , going straight into fast polo as though she 'd played it all her life . |
| 15 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 16 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 17 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 18 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 19 | Then for a few days she was quiet . |
| 20 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 21 | Coleridge and Sara began their married life more conventionally , and within a few days he was writing in enraptured terms to Tom Poole from their ‘ comfortable Cot ’ in Clevedon : ‘ the prospect around us is perhaps more various than any in the kingdom — Mine Eye gluttonizes. — The Sea — the distant Islands ! the opposite Coasts ! — I shall assuredly write Rhymes — let the nine Muses prevent it , if they can . ’ |
| 22 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 23 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 24 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 25 | After only a few days he gave up and did his best to ignore them even though they had the one thing above all he was beginning to want : freedom . |
| 26 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 27 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 28 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 29 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 30 | In a few days he will catch a boat for South America . |