Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num ord] [adj] days [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marilla agreed , and for the next few days Anne planned what she would put in her cake . |
| 2 | The harvest had started , everyone else was out in the fields , afraid it would rain , and for the next few days Libby and George joined in , stooking and carrying sheaves which they could seldom get to balance . |
| 3 | For the next few days Shelley did n't catch even a glimpse of her chief . |
| 4 | For the next few days Ruth spent most of her waking hours with Anna , reading to her from the small collection of books Mrs Carson had brought on board , playing games , making up stories . |
| 5 | For the next few days Ajdabiya was extremely unsettled , and men showed all the conventional signs of being in crisis , and on the verge of further violent action . |
| 6 | During the first few days people left their houses for fear of being bombed by Pippo , but quite soon he became part of our lives and we did n't bother about him any more . |
| 7 | During the next two days Corbett stayed in his cell , recuperating from the journey and forced imprisonment . |
| 8 | During the next ten days negotiations and discussions went on , in some of which I was the messenger for Sir Hubert , particularly in the efforts to get U Saw and U Ba Maw into the Council , successful in the first case but not in the second . |
| 9 | During the next forty days Jesus often appeared to his friends . |
| 10 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 11 | During the next few days Stevie was to find himself something of a cult figure . |
| 12 | During the last two days labourers had climbed every local coconut tree to find enough nuts at the precise stage when the juice starts turning into flesh . |
| 13 | In the next few days Creggan began to learn about the Zoo in which he was now imprisoned . |
| 14 | In the next few days Mary spent almost all her time in the gardens . |
| 15 | Well in the last 2 days Firmin and Antonio have been getting more and more hostile ( which is n't hard to do given how Charlie and Matt are currently feeling about one another ) and you could really sense the Indians getting involved , following it all from their part of the raft as if their lives depended on it — which in a way they did I suppose because we were arguing about whether they had the right to be baptised and have their souls saved or not . |
| 16 | Over the next ten days de Gaulle played a very dangerous and difficult game , in which he manipulated the threat of Operation Resurrection without overtly backing or overtly disavowing the army 's plans . |
| 17 | Over the next few days Pope John talked with groups such as the press and the observers . |
| 18 | Over the next few days Maggie slowly got closer to Ana de Santis . |
| 19 | Over the next few days Stevens confirmed his hunch . |
| 20 | Over the next few days Sir Robin could need all the native cunning and tact he once showed as a cricket captain to deal with the political uncertainty many expect after the election . |
| 21 | Over the next few days Rory began to wonder if life would ever return to anything even remotely resembling normal . |