Example sentences of "[noun] of a few days " in BNC.
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1 | The Supreme Soviet usually met for two sessions of a few days each year . |
2 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
3 | His words of a few days ago came unbidden into her mind . |
4 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
5 | Myxomatosis first shows as a swelling of eyes , ears and vent , and in the course of a few days the eyes fill with pus and the rabbit loses its sight . |
6 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
7 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
8 | A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed . |
9 | Because nothing can travel faster than light , an object that can vary its output of energy within a period of a few days can be at best a few light-days across . |
10 | This number of casualties over a period of a few days would have been exceptional even when the mujahideen guerrillas were fighting the communists . |
11 | Over a period of a few days during early August the world 's perception of the Kingdom shifted dramatically , so that King Hussein was no longer portrayed as one of the chief US allies in the region , but instead as one of Saddam Hussein 's prime collaborators . |
12 | Usually the syndrome is associated with frequent coughing and slight tachypnoea over a period of a few days ; less frequently there is marked tachypnoea , hyperpnoea and in dairy cows a reduction in milk yield . |
13 | Wildebeest movements follow , at a distance of a few days , the pattern of rainfall ; but they only keep moving so long as rain is falling or has recently fallen within the area scanned by their senses . |
14 | He served in her , with breaks of a few days , until 12 March 1781 , when he moved to the Foudroyant ( 80 guns ) as acting lieutenant , staying until the end of October . |
15 | You did n't fall in love with someone in the space of a few days , just because you 'd finally succumbed to the lures of sex , or lust , or whatever had overwhelmed her ever since he 'd fished her out of the sea that first night … |
16 | Curtis remarked to Springfield that he must have seen more action in Rockford in the space of a few days , than he had done in the previous few years . |
17 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
20 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
21 | In August , 1944 I was flying Mustangs from Grimbergen , through to the Arnhem campaign , and my memories are that we were the first RAF Squadron to be based near Brussels , and only a matter of a few days after our armies had liberated that City . |
22 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |
23 | ‘ Look , we have been on this world a matter of a few days . |
24 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
25 | What you need is a break or a holiday so count your pennies and weigh up your chances of a few days in the sun or short spell staying with friends . |
26 | We flew back to Mahe and straight on to Praslin for a stay of a few days with the intention of taking day-trips to the smaller islands of Cousin and La Digue . |