Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | More to the point , the affair earned Owen a few days ' breathing space . |
| 2 | Even when a problem is solved and the fish have apparently recovered it is common for tropicals to suffer an outbreak of White Spot and Coralfish to get Oodinium a few days later . |
| 3 | Under commitment accounting , the manager could simply issue orders a few days before the year-end to ‘ fill up ’ the budget . |
| 4 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 5 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |
| 6 | We both met Walter a few days ago . |