Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few days of " in BNC.
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| 1 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 2 | Observations were taken over three weekdays within a few days of each other to cover the period between 8.00 a.m. and 7.00 p.m. , so that at each datapoint there were 1980 ( 11 hours x 60 minutes x 3 ) observations of activity for each individual . |
| 3 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 4 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 5 | AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication . |
| 6 | I believe it to be one of two aircraft , both Dornier Do 17Zs which were both shot down in the same area within a few days of each other . |
| 7 | Indeed , if anything , modern societies seem bent on compounding the problem by considerably lengthening and complicating adolescence — a period of life which , as we have seen , barely exists in totemic societies where individuals go from childhood to adulthood via a few days of traumatic initiation . |
| 8 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 9 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 10 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
| 11 | ‘ The deaths of father and son within a few days of each other raise questions to which I have to find satisfactory answers . |