Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I think I shall stay on for a few days here . ’ |
| 2 | I ask him to come down for a few days and I also invite Lady De Marr . |
| 3 | ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 . |
| 4 | The rains may disappear as suddenly as they arrived ; the pond may dry out within a few days , and so the whole cycle of breeding activity must be completed in the shortest possible time . |
| 5 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 6 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 7 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 8 | It could be that the couple simply decided to go away for a few days , but those who know Mrs Allsopp say it 's unlikely she would have left without telling anyone . |
| 9 | Maybe I should have hung on for a few days in there getting to grips with Alf Bundy 's ailments . |
| 10 | A number of vessels were turned away in the following days . |
| 11 | Our son Greg came over for a few days to do some business in England and to see his father . |
| 12 | The two of them had often met socially in the old days , with their respective partners , at evenings in the Green Dragon , the local pub in the village of Welton , ten miles from Hull , where Horsley lived in a magnificent stone house which , he always stressed , did not have a drive . |
| 13 | Cover up for a few days , use a higher factor lotion , and take great care . |
| 14 | He came up for a few days and stayed in Mackay 's Hotel in Ardallt . |
| 15 | From The Great Train Robbery ( 1903 ) onwards , the Western has been informed by a species of bitter nostalgia , looking back to the wild days of the West and questioning the value of the civilisation won by all that exciting gunplay . |
| 16 | Some signs of their emergence can be seen even in the first days of the " new diplomacy " . |
| 17 | Donning the mantle : Andrew McKinnon began his career in the theatre 20 years ago at Perth , training there in the early days of Joan Knight 's reign |
| 18 | ‘ No , I 'm sure you 'll be able to go home in a few days . |
| 19 | Now , although St Petersburg is full of some of the greatest treasures of the world , full of riches that have been handed down from the imperial days , there is very little about the tsar and his family at the time of the revolution . |
| 20 | Andrew Jean was back , beehive still in place , and chattering away like the old days . |
| 21 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
| 22 | In the 19th century , biologists , growing up in the halcyon days of the Industrial Revolution , saw all life as a struggle to survive . |
| 23 | Going , going back to the early days you mentioned that erm the dividend , the divi was quite important . |
| 24 | … Trouble with going back to the old days , the [ agency ] was more or less a family concern . |
| 25 | All he would say was that the paper would be completely new , but would hark back to the great days of the Mirror . |
| 26 | No-one can deny that being pretty helps — no female on breakfast television would have a career otherwise — but I can not believe that we are turning back to the dark days when it was deemed the most important thing of all . |
| 27 | ‘ We recall the long established principle of the UK Parliament , stretching back to 1860 and before , and reasserted even during the dark days of the Second World War , against taxing knowledge , reading , ideas and the demand for literacy and information . |
| 28 | But her own body told her a different story which , lying here for the long days of rest which had been prescribed for her , she had heard clearly enough through the bird-twitter of Linnet and her mother , and Tristan 's determined joviality . |
| 29 | The travellers say they wo n't be moving on for a few days and tonight , the festival still appears to be in full swing.Local people are angry after finding drug-taking equipment dumped in gardens , and sheep savaged to death at a local farm . |
| 30 | The situation quietened somewhat in the following days , as Serbia despatched 2,000 police reinforcements to the province ; at the same time , however , the neighbouring republic of Slovenia withdrew its police contingent on Feb. 4 . |