Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] few days " in BNC.

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1 PLENTY of barmy things going on for the next few days , as the Festival of Comedy gets underway .
2 only for the first few days
3 Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep .
4 LLANDUDNO General Hospital will be virtually closed down for the next few days while the scale of the damage is assessed .
5 So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 .
6 The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support .
7 Then Beryl went on to outline a couple of job offers that had come in within the last few days .
8 When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash .
9 Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed .
10 And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election .
11 ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’
12 for most of it , but not during the last few days
13 In an interview with William Hardcastle on BBC Radio 4 's ‘ The World This Weekend ’ , the text of which was published in the Irish News on 7 October , Craig introduced two themes which were to be repeated over and over during the next few days .
14 The 25-year-old will cost around £700,000 and the signing is likely to be pushed through in the next few days in time for the Christmas programme .
15 Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days .
16 If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days .
17 ‘ The way is clear now for a base rate cut within the next few weeks , possibly within the next few days .
18 So many people give up because , after the elation of seeing the pounds fall off in the first few days , they lose heart when weight loss slows down .
19 If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates .
20 Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days .
21 Entries are flowing in — a limit of 2000 has been set — but Malcolm Barham , of the race organisers , says things generally hot up in the last few days before the closing date , which is April 10 .
22 Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over .
23 I watched him carefully in the next few days .
24 This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision .
25 Erm , the erm , the erm , the erm , er , settlement of the anti tr civil anti trust law suit that was referred to in the statement was erm , costs of about six million dollars this year on a class action law suit which we have reached a tentative settlement on in the last few days and , in fact , there were some , there was about six to seven million dollars of additional provision made at the end of last year in the one time charges that we referred to at that time but could n't really identify with erm , lawyers breathing down your necks in the United States and er , this is a class action law suit , would have been in a Texas Court and erm , you know , the boiler plate language is that you want to get rid of the , you know , the expense and uncertainty of this type of litigation and if you think that what a Texas jury did to Texaco , it 's probably a prudent decision to close the matter off at this time .
26 Rain said : ‘ I found out during the last few days .
27 However , Keegan 's No 2 , Terry McDermott , hinted that the move could be sorted out in the next few days .
28 To achieve this , however , we must get publication underway within the next few days .
29 In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week .
30 Tory sources insist that Mr Major is leaving the decision up to backbenchers , who will be sounded out over the next few days .
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