Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [det] days or [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow . |
2 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
3 | a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment . |
4 | Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long . |
5 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
6 | More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course . |
7 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
8 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
9 | In a few days or weeks Francis would almost certainly have made a will and it was unlikely that Anna would have been the principal , let alone the sole beneficiary . |
10 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |