Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] day the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 2 | After a few days the eldest brother told me to come . |
| 3 | After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms . |
| 4 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
| 5 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 6 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 7 | Take out of a typical day the classes you must attend , the time spent travelling , the hours you sleep , the eating , shopping , meeting friends , relaxing , watching television , listening to music and all the other activities of a busy day , and there is not much time left for study . |
| 8 | Myxomatosis first shows as a swelling of eyes , ears and vent , and in the course of a few days the eyes fill with pus and the rabbit loses its sight . |
| 9 | For a hundred days the issues had to be argued out in front of a High Court judge , Mr Justice Parker . |
| 10 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 11 | At Hampton Ferry the Saturday match was cancelled but with a milder day the Sunday event was still going ahead Saturday night . |
| 12 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 13 | Within a few days the troubled Asylum Bill itself disappeared from the Lord 's timetable for the remainder of the current Parliament . |
| 14 | Within a few days the whispers had become a roar — South Africa for the 1995 World Cup . |
| 15 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 16 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 17 | Within a few days the Slovene peasants of the Krka valley between Novo Mesto and the Croatian border had also risen . |
| 18 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
| 19 | In a few days the effects of the anaesthetic will diminish and you will feel better . |
| 20 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 21 | In a few days The Shamen take their millennial grooves and positive paganism to Salt Lake City . |
| 22 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
| 23 | On a good day the climate in LA is close to perfection : it is possible to understand what brought all these millions to a vast , waterless , resourceless basin , between the mountains , the desert and the sea . |
| 24 | On a hot day the engine-out rate of climb did little for the blood pressure . |
| 25 | On a particular day the bill will mature . |
| 26 | In windy conditions , the glider will climb higher if the launching speeds are on the slow side , whereas on a calm day the best speed is closer to the limit shown on the placard . |
| 27 | But in the massive ballroom across the way there were only a few chairs and a sideboard or two , and even on a dismal day the light had fallen on the intricate design of a wooden parquet floor and pretty chiaroscuro frescoes painted into the panels of gracefully arched walls . |
| 28 | On a clear day the Black Mountains of Wales can even be made out to the north-east . |
| 29 | To its rear are miles and miles of open moorland and on a clear day the views from all aspects are quite spectacular . |