Example sentences of "few days [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | For the first few days we kept the family shut into the cow-shed , to protect them from the cats ; but I really think that if any cat had had the temerity to put in an attack , the hen would have chased it half-way to Gloucester . |
2 | In a few days we shall announce our exact demands which must be fulfilled before we release Liam Shakespeare . |
3 | Over the next few days we went paddling everywhere we could , starting with mud and graduating to small and then larger puddles . |
4 | Within a few days we had become bystanders , watching things happen beyond our control . |
5 | For the next few days we made love with a kindliness and consideration we had never experienced before . |
6 | After only a few days we were both madly in love , not just with each other , but with this beautiful island in the sun and with Crystal Springs , which we found by accident . |
7 | Erm our last few days we were meant to see Everest and the beautiful Himalayas but the monsoon did n't er finish so were n't ab able to see that but we understood they were there somewhere . |
8 | During the next few days we lost my pony , two of our riding mules and five more baggage mules . |
9 | In these last few days we have anticipated different futures . |
10 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
11 | ‘ But within the last few days we have received a letter from our insurance assessor that gives us fresh hope . |
12 | Yeah , erm when we 're up the farm when er , after a few days we put the feed in them they smell . |
13 | for a few days we took him up here and all up there ! |
14 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
15 | Within a few days they were ready to invite Poole to a dinner of roast pork and potatoes — cooked in the baker 's oven because the cottage had none that could be used — and at the end of January a letter to John Prior Estlin described with quiet enthusiasm the clear brook which ran before the cottage door , a pretty garden — ‘ large enough to find us vegetables and employment ’ — and an orchard lying beyond which was about to become home for some ducks and geese , as well as two pigs . |
16 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
17 | In the past few days they have detected a slide in that support . |
18 | And true enough , in the last few days they had grown much closer to each other . |
19 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
20 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
21 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
22 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
23 | 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 … |
24 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
25 | In the last few days they have behaved impeccably and had tried to get FIDE to give the rights to the new organisation . ’ |
26 | ‘ For the first few days they were all a bit subdued , ’ Bob said . |
27 | For the next few days she had carried the tiny dragon everywhere . |
28 | And it is expected that in the next few days she will address the military 's other grievances . |
29 | Within a few days she had resolved to flee the country — her husband would not leave his business — and to join her parents , who had settled in London in 1936 . |
30 | For the last few days she had seen them , not as her parents but as two hating individuals carrying on a private war behind screens . |