Example sentences of "[verb] in a [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | ‘ Things will improve in a few days . |
4 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
5 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
6 | If the symptoms disappear in a few days no more medicine is needed , but if the symptoms persist dosing continues as before to complete the cure §281 . |
7 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
8 | ONE of County Durham 's longest-serving police officers is to retire in a few days . |
9 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
10 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
11 | If the symptoms are of the remedy they will disappear in a few days and no more medicine may be needed . |
12 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
13 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
14 | He told his brother that he was close to death and would die in a few days . |
15 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
16 | that will happen in a few days . |
17 | He was assured that he would hear in a few days . |
18 | As she walked from the post office empty handed , she pretended to be an American tourist , one who could leave in a few days , one for whom the trip would soon be nothing more than a few travel stories and postcards . |
19 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
20 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
21 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
22 | He told the owner of the pensione that he would probably be leaving in a few days and then he made his way to the station to ask about trains . |
23 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |