Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] [art] [det] days " in BNC.
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1 | And now that Lucy had resolved to stay for a few days , she decided to tell her aunt to expect her when she saw her . |
2 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
3 | I would n't , I would n't mind going for a few days |
4 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
5 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
6 | The therapist realized that some changes in the couples ' situation would have to occur within a few days if another crisis were to be avoided . |
7 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
8 | After this the hole in the shell is sealed and the embryo is allowed to develop for a few days . |
9 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
10 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
11 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
12 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
13 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
14 | In the event of trouble , remove the villain , let the other fish settle for a few days and them put him back . |
15 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
16 | You need to rest for a few days , but you should be all right soon enough . |