Example sentences of "a few days [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | After only a few days one of the H . |
2 | It was good to spend a few days all together , we visited Falkland Place on Saturday pm , and it was fun to go to St Paul 's and St George 's to worship on Easter day . |
3 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
4 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
5 | Within a few days each hole is teeming with worms , with a large proportion being on the pebble . |
6 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
7 | What got in the press last week in fact was a few days late , it had all been sorted out . |
8 | After a few days of premonitory seismic activity , the eruption started on 15 January and for a few days well-developed Vulcanian activity continued , with frequent explosions and a great eruption cloud reaching up to 10,000 metres . |
9 | ’ Then just think of it , ’ she said with a superior smile , ’ as a few days extra for you to go on pulping your brain with galacvid garbage . ’ |
10 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |
11 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
12 | Within a few days most of the patrols had either been killed or captured and the enemy occupied their rendezvous at Bir Fascia . |
13 | when we send it back in a few days fitting , this job I says we 'll want it early in the morning and you can have it in the afternoon , but we were going to spend the day in Liverpool , but you 're dad said , I 'm not being round all those shops all day , so I said ooh no ! |
14 | It 's been going on a few days this game . |
15 | Because my friend 's daughter whom I met er she is one year and a few days older than you two huh ? |
16 | Stella , before Howard leaves , will you fix for him to fly to New Canaan for a few days last spring … ? ’ |
17 | For a few days last week it looked as though United States voters would behave as British voters did earlier this year and swing back to the devil they knew . |
18 | At just a few days old , she and Carly , who were born in Rush Green Hospital , Romford , Essex , joined at the chest and upper abdomen , sharing a liver heart cavity , were separated in seven hours of surgery . |
19 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
20 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
21 | A glass or plastic one measuring about 18″ × 10″ × 10″ will hold 50 or so full-grown ones : often a single nettle head collected when the caterpillars are only a few days old will contain at least that many . |
22 | The chicks are only a few days old , but these parents are obviously more relaxed with them than the Barnys were with any of their offspring . ( ) |
23 | The calves , when only a few days old , are tethered by the neck in a stall about 60 cms wide and 150 cms long , until they are too large to turn . |
24 | Kittens first purr while suckling when they are a few days old . |
25 | The bairn started bringing his milk back up all the time when he was just a few days old . |
26 | ‘ When we sent you away , Fergus , you were a babe , no more than a few days old . ’ |
27 | The chick 's beaks are removed with a hot knife when they are just a few days old in order to prevent the savage pecking which often occurs in densely populated factory farming environments . |
28 | Jade 's skull was fractured when she was a few days old when her nanny , Carol Withers battered her with a heavy weapon . |
29 | This is Rupert , a 5 month old Barn Owl who was deserted by his parents at a few days old , but found in time to be saved and hand reared . |
30 | Within a few days military delegations from Myanma and Thailand had met and Myanman troops were withdrawn by Dec. 25 . |