Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 3 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 4 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
| 5 | Then he was dropped five games later and it became obvious to all that the goalkeeping hero of the finest days the club had ever known could not be long in going — and on 16 October 1973 he moved over to Orient for a £30,000 fee . |
| 6 | As Betty talked about the rain of the previous days the builder spoke briefly of water tables ; as she deplored the unemployment in the principality he gave a succinct resumé of the economic situation ; as , somewhat at a loss , she praised the sun for now shining , Emyr described in a few words how it would eventually burn itself out . |
| 7 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
| 8 | In the pre-robotised days the job had a number of characteristics which job design experts would have recognised as leading to a reasonably high level of job satisfaction . |
| 9 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive had driven away about 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 10 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive had driven away about 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 11 | In the early days the stigma of being HIV positive drove away 60% of my circle of friends . |
| 12 | Very gifted , but in the early days the ensemble was not always very good . |
| 13 | ‘ The officials at Preston have been nothing but encouraging and in the early days the coaching staff put in a lot of time to make up for my lack of experience . |
| 14 | In the early days the Clash often went hungry . |
| 15 | In the early days the novelty must have outweighed the discomfort , or no one would have travelled in the first charabancs . |
| 16 | To keep it solvent in the early days the office sold travel goods such as baggage , guidebooks and walking-sticks in addition to the tours and other travel arrangements , which were the main source of income . |
| 17 | In the following days the strike rapidly spread across the city and workers were joined by white-collar employees , teachers and students in mass demonstrations which converged on the city centre . |
| 18 | In the old days the journey took nine or ten days by camel . |
| 19 | Erm I know it 's associated with over extraction of water at certain points but but be that as it may , but in the old days the Sussex Lands Committee er used to be er a county function and did take an overview erm of the whole West Sussex scene in terms of what happened erm it is now really now erm not our responsibility , although we put members on it , it 's a now fairly weak er joint body but it 's pretty toothless . |
| 20 | ‘ In the old days the agency head knew every one of his staff . |
| 21 | In the old days the surgeon made an incision in the lower portion of the tummy and reached the enlarged gland that way , but before the coming of antibiotics it was quite common for infections to develop or for the prostate to turn cancerous . |
| 22 | In the ensuing days the President 's health was closely monitored and , after a further burst of accelerated and irregular heart activity on May 7 , it was announced on the following day that the source of Bush 's condition was an over-active thyroid gland . |
| 23 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
| 24 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
| 25 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
| 26 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 27 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
| 28 | Even up to the final days the movement of the young fish can be seen by using a strong eye-glass . |