Example sentences of "[verb] for a few days " in BNC.
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| 31 | You need to rest for a few days , but you should be all right soon enough . |
| 32 | Bearing in mind that if we do have the whole house then people are only coming for a few days or or even one night could no they had somewhere to stay . |
| 33 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 34 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 35 | Wrapped up in the everyday business of looking after her newborn baby , Belinda felt fine : she could cope for a few days . |
| 36 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 37 | ‘ You and Ratagan could take one out tomorrow , stay for a few days and have a look around at the western fiefs . |
| 38 | Predictions from these tables will let you down once or twice a year when a session of light wind invades for a few days . |
| 39 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 40 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 41 | After this the hole in the shell is sealed and the embryo is allowed to develop for a few days . |
| 42 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
| 43 | Avril found out the very next evening when Peter drove her to her daughter 's house to stay for a few days . |
| 44 | In some homes it is possible to stay for a few days or a week at a time either occasionally or on a regular basis . |
| 45 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
| 46 | The mother 's death is portrayed in a macabre scene where Walter is unsure whether she has died , or even what death is , and allows the corpse to rot for a few days while he sits by her side . |
| 47 | Dana did not reappear for a few days , and during that time I felt I was going mad . |
| 48 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 49 | Leave for a few days , then add just one or two hardy fish . |
| 50 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 51 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 52 | In the event of trouble , remove the villain , let the other fish settle for a few days and them put him back . |
| 53 | But as long as you spot the early signs you should be okay — just keep the red bits covered for a few days . |
| 54 | Where a slight flow of water is guaranteed for a few days , for example in crevices and gullies that conduct snow-melt trickles , mosses gather among the lichens . |
| 55 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 56 | I 'm just visiting for a few days . ’ |
| 57 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
| 58 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |