Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [prep] a [det] days " in BNC.
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1 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ No , I 'm sure you 'll be able to go home in a few days . |
5 | I would n't mind going away for a few days , but |
6 | ‘ I 'm fine now and looking forward to getting home for a few days . |
7 | Most mothers , if forced to leave home for a few days , would entrust their children to the pet dog for safekeeping rather than hand them to their lawful father . |
8 | If it appears slowly with a few days warning of something being not quite right and the patient gradually sinks into the illness , then the cause is likely to lie several days or even a week earlier . |
9 | The ceremonies lasted for a month and millions attended , many coming only for a few days . |
10 | Can SHe stay here for a few days ? ’ |
11 | ‘ At least , let me stay here for a few days . |
12 | They 've gone away for a few days . |
13 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
14 | However , he left the next day , calling later to ask Lorna to meet him nearby with £500 cash so he could go away for a few days . |
15 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
16 | After a time the goat disappeared , and its place was taken by some hens , and these hens I looked after when , as quite often happened , their mistress went away for a few days . |
17 | Apparently all went well for a few days , then Svend 's conscience got the better of him . |
18 | Some think that he will go abroad for a few days and the CIA will then engineer his return in a countercoup , just as it did in 1953 . |
19 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
20 | Doubtless that was the trigger , but an operation of 24,000 men is not thrown together in a few days . |
21 | She said to me , " Ca n't you get away for a few days ? " |
22 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |
23 | ‘ Would it be possible to stay here for a few days ? ’ |