Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [prep] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 2 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 3 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 4 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 5 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 6 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 7 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 8 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |