Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] a few day " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was only given a few days ' notice . |
| 2 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 3 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Should only take a few days . |
| 5 | I 'm just waiting for my international clearance now , which should only take a few days , and then I 'll be aiming to challenge for a first team place . ’ |
| 6 | But it was a fun film , it only took a few days work — and I got to meet Mick Jagger ! ’ |
| 7 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 8 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 9 | ‘ Each time a memo was fired off and the problem was solved , but it only lasted a few days and they were using the extinguishers again , ’ he said . |
| 10 | Cuts into the , it cuts into the we the weeks , I mean that sounds terrible , I 'll be , you 're only working a few days but it 's surprising the teaching days I do really , that really does cut into my time at home . |
| 11 | Now she is learning to walk again and has already had a few day visits home . |
| 12 | Each time you are paid , CPO will send you a pay statement which will normally arrive a few days before your pay is put into your account . |
| 13 | Their immune systems are so damaged that colds and bugs which normally take a few days to clear can take weeks or months . |
| 14 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 15 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 16 | You can always take a few days off immediately before the exam to rest and refresh yourself . |
| 17 | But what America does one day , we usually do a few days , weeks or months later . |
| 18 | It was tough on the aircrews though , going out night after night to drop bombs on targets they could n't see through the murk and the searchlights , but perhaps this very impersonality kept them going — that and the fact that they were young and usually had a few days between each mission when they could recuperate in the relative peace and tranquility of the English countryside . |
| 19 | So you , well then you 'll still not know what you 're going out with because you still have a few days from last week to get . |
| 20 | Hervey probably died a few days before 7 February 1277 . |
| 21 | Laurence del Brok probably died a few days before 25 December 1274 . |
| 22 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 23 | But that time must yet remain a few days ahead , while everywhere lay in the throes of a natural disaster — the nature of which had yet to be determined — and while the snow still fell as thickly as it did . |
| 24 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 25 | ‘ She had enough clothes for a month , never mind a few days , ’ said one of Elizabeth 's friends , who helped them get ready for the trip . |