Example sentences of "a few days [pron] " 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 | After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . |
| 9 | In a few days we shall announce our exact demands which must be fulfilled before we release Liam Shakespeare . |
| 10 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
| 13 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
| 14 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
| 15 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |
| 16 | Sometimes Buddie stacked trays of eggs above the pipes to incubate , and after a few days there would be dozens of fluffy , chirruping chicks hatching out in the heat . |
| 17 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 18 | In a few days there will be a new office for Major Kypov at the end of the Administration block . |
| 19 | For a few days there was a swirl of conversation in the camp about the fire and its likely cause , and then the talk slipped . |
| 20 | For a few days there was a period of uncertainty , as Huw waited to see if the Brotherhood were planning another attack upon him — and the Inner Circle of the Guild waited to see if any steps would be taken by the Dockers ' Union , or by the police , in defence of the young man . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Within a few days she seemed very accepting of the situation , almost enjoying not having her husband around the house . |
| 24 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 25 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 26 | I had to wait until the female was bulging-ripe , so within a few days she was brooding . |
| 27 | Then for a few days she was quiet . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |