Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it might pay a mother to wait for a few days and see what happened to the baby . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 3 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 4 | When the seeds drop off from the flowering spike , they should be left in the tank to float for a few days . |
| 5 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 6 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 8 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 9 | It 's been happening for a few days , but I 've only just realised what it is … |
| 10 | ‘ You wo n't be going back to work for a few days , I 'm afraid , Francisco . ’ |
| 11 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 12 | Suspecting a mild heart attack , his doctor had him admitted to hospital but tests were negative and he was discharged after a few days . |
| 13 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 14 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 15 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 16 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 17 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 18 | He was going to find it rather difficult to talk for a few days , Kathleen realised . |
| 19 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 20 | Once the message was on the wire , he had little else to do except sit back and wait for a few days . |
| 21 | Just wait for a few days , and you will see . |
| 22 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 23 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 24 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 25 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 26 | ‘ Despite several rests ranging from a few days up to a whole week , I could n't shake off the injury and it just got worse . |
| 27 | ‘ Things will improve in a few days . |
| 28 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 29 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 30 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |