Example sentences of "[prep] a few days [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days its rightful owner came to collect it and informed her that it was in fact a ferret . |
| 2 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
| 3 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 4 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 5 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 6 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 7 | After a few days he is well enough to travel and one of Leavitt 's Willys safari cars takes them home . |
| 8 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 9 | He became ill , and after a few days he died in my arms . |
| 10 | After a few days my condition improved , the weather changed dramatically , and I made my way across the cultivated , fertile fields of Normandy . |
| 11 | Sometimes Buddie stacked trays of eggs above the pipes to incubate , and after a few days there would be dozens of fluffy , chirruping chicks hatching out in the heat . |
| 12 | After a few days she even left the cubs for a while to give him a reassuring lick . |
| 13 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 14 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 15 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 16 | After a few days I started to develop backache in the lumbar region so acute that I could hardly move . |
| 17 | ‘ After a few days I was n't half as hungry and found it easier to cut down . |
| 18 | After a few days I was allowed downstairs and began to eat proper meals again , and two weeks later I started back at school . |
| 19 | But it was only somewhere about thirty degrees Celsius and after a few days I had become accustomed to the change in temperature . |
| 20 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 21 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 22 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 23 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |
| 24 | In a matter of a few days it seemed , I was crying unashamedly with other City Temple folk at a prayer service arranged by Dr Weatherhead to ask God 's mercy on the people of Czechoslovakia . |
| 25 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
| 26 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
| 27 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 28 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 29 | and if you 're coming for a few days you 've , you 've bag carrying and all this in the business |
| 30 | For a few days I was too cowardly to tell Shadwell of Pyke 's offer , and that I was not going to do the Moliere . |