Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] a few days " in BNC.
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1 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
2 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
3 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
4 | He especially did n't like to think what would happen if his mother ever discovered that he was going to sneak out of the house to attend an illegal meeting a few days hence . |
5 | Losing most of the All Black team a few days later was even more embarrassing . |
6 | The SD station at Kitzingen in Lower Franconia , for example , which in its special report directly on the speech had declared that ‘ the rumours about the Führer are presumably disposed of ’ mentioned in its regular report a few days later that some workers had been heard saying that , from the speed and tone of voice , it had not been the Führer himself , but a substitute who had spoken , and Hitler himself had suffered such a shock from Stalingrad that he had to be kept under closely guarded house arrest on the Obersalzberg . |
7 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
8 | The annihilation of the Baltic fleet a few days later in the Straits of Tsushima was almost unbelievable and was the first defeat of a great power in modern history by an Asian state and for that reason alone Japan 's success might have been an example for Vietnam . |
9 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
10 | If possible , take the older fish out , add the new ones and return the older fish a few days later … then they become the new ones . |
11 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
12 | In three of the six subjects ( responders ) methane excretion showed a pronounced fall a few days after SO 4 was added to the diet , so that by 10 days with added sulphate methane concentration was less than 2 ppm in all samples measured in these three subjects . |
13 | One evening a few days later , Gabriel went to find his mistress . |
14 | And I came in one day a few days ago an and running around like a bee on heat with erm cries of oh I 've got so much to do and no time left in which to do it and I went ha I said yes , if you got up early , you know ! |
15 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
16 | The remarkable thing about this cinematic treat was the close comparison it bore to the scene at Stonethwaite campsite a few days previously . |
17 | One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar . |
18 | Brunel was a successful naval architect , and an outstanding builder of bridges and tunnels , to say nothing of his three great steamships , the Great Western , which sailed out of the Bristol Channel to open up the first regular passenger service between Europe and America ; the Great Britain ( see Bristol ) ; and the Great Eastern , which began its maiden voyage a few days before Brunel 's death in 1859 , and remained the largest ship afloat for nearly half a century . |
19 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
20 | You could move the more aggressive fish to a separate tank — or even the breeding trap — and return it to the main aquarium a few days later , when it will be unlikely to go on the attack , as it will in effect , be the ‘ new fish ’ . |
21 | The championships ended with the Liberty Trophy final , when Cumbria added the county title to their fours success a few days earlier . |
22 | John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross , rather than angry , about the recession . |