Example sentences of "[prep] [art] few days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should add that there are also a great many flowers that seem to have rather negative meanings , such as the lovely little lawn daisy , which apparently means ‘ delay ’ , or ‘ return after a few days when I may give you an answer ’ — not necessarily the most suitable text to put on a bookmark . |
| 2 | One of two possible methods is to divide off one end of the tank using a clear divider and install the new fish into the smaller section , after a few days when the other occupants of the tank have accepted the newcomer then remove the divider and let all of the fish mix . |
| 3 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 4 | Most of all , after a few days there began to appear a growing chorus of complaint from hosts about the condition of some of the evacuees . |
| 5 | If there is no improvement after a few days then it is either not the appropriate remedy or there are some environmental maintaining causes blocking the remedy action §252 . |
| 6 | His words of a few days ago came unbidden into her mind . |
| 7 | erm because that 's like a continuous thing erm with with some other stuff , if it 's just like essays or projects due in at the end of this term or beginning of next , you know get , get the light stuff out of the way first erm and try you may find it easier if you , if you , what I used to do was sort of try and , you know , pace it out a little bit and not try and write an essay all at once because I found that very difficult to do but if you just sort of write a paragraph and do , do something else for a bit and you know kind of write another paragraph a bit later on in the day and , and , you know , kind of erm you know work , you know do n't , do n't try and write an essay all in one evening but try and sort of , you know , if you 've managed to spread it out over the course of a few days so that you do n't have to do too much at once I mean it 's difficult to concentrate on one thing |
| 8 | A busy man who was prepared for ‘ another talk ’ after the prolonged exchange of a few days earlier , was not quite the self-absorbed , withdrawn person he has sometimes been portrayed . |
| 9 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 10 | The most intensively automated sections of any library are probably the short loan collections of universities , where books in high demand are separately shelved and issued for varying brief periods of a few days down to a few hours on one day . |
| 11 | While the woman has no natural way of eliminating the infection , it is probable that many men carry the infection in the urethra for a matter of a few days only , after which the flushing action of passing urine may eliminate the organisms . |
| 12 | It was left behind a few days ago , Ramsbum does n't know by whom , and no one 's claimed it . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ She said you had a chill on the kidneys and you 'd be in bed for a few days yet . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I went off to school camp for a few days when I was ten , and Mum suggested I took some sanitary towels with me in case my period started , but I dismissed this as silly and unnecessary . |
| 16 | Around £150 for family holidays , allowing for a few days reasonably riding as part of the package . |
| 17 | Even if it 's only for a few days both you and your baby will benefit . |
| 18 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 19 | I 'm off for a few days again so i 'll be a bit quiet . |
| 20 | The one used in London can handle fifty million pieces of information in one second , and it still takes minutes to produce a forecast for a few days ahead . |
| 21 | She could stay in Edinburgh for a few days longer , she said , until he was ready to go back . |
| 22 | If your parent is allowed home from hospital ( or other National Health Service accommodation ) for a few days occasionally you should notify the Department of Health and Social Security , as she may be entitled to her pension , benefits or allowances at the full rate for that period . |
| 23 | It 's when you 've been flying them for a few days consecutively that it ( pardon the pun ) dawns on them that they could escape and find out what 's over the next hill . |
| 24 | ‘ Because for a few days now it will be very dangerous in the forest . ’ |
| 25 | I 've been feeling headachy and dizzy for a few days now . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ We 've been out of touch for a few days now . |
| 27 | The idea had been in the back of her mind for a few days now and this evening had decided it for sure . |
| 28 | You let things lapse for a few days more . |
| 29 | He did , and there was quiet again for a few days more . |
| 30 | So she agreed to that bargain , and for a few days more kept the secret to herself , still hopeful that she might be mistaken , and yet at the same time aware of a feeling of inner triumph at the knowledge that she had her very own baby growing inside her womb . |