Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] a few day " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 2 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 3 | The hay had been cut a few days before and dried in the sun and Frederick made light work of heaving it up to Albert on the cart . |
| 4 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 5 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 7 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |