Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [prep] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 2 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 3 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 4 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
| 5 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |