Example sentences of "[prep] a few days [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 After a few days at Broadlands , they flew to Gibraltar to join the Royal Yacht Britannia for a two-week cruise in and around the Mediterranean .
2 But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ .
3 In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’
4 In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much .
5 Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam .
6 We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel .
7 ZOOLOGIST Terry Walton stopped off for a few days in India in 1967 .
8 Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel .
9 Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past .
10 It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees .
11 Within a few days of Elizabeth 's death the reivers had taken what they imagined would be the opportunity for easy plunder , and swarmed over the Border in what their victims and the Wardens referred to as ‘ Ill Week ’ .
12 AND you receive the magazine within a few days of UK publication .
13 Within a few days of Prince Albert 's death , young Henry Joseph Titford , aged nine , fell ill with tubercular bronchitis .
14 Over a few days in May 1984 Puhe accompanied Andrew Kerr of FoE Scotland and other campaigners in a tour of Scotland , England and Wales which took in 47 sites , at 31 of which beech , Douglas fir and spruce were found with the same symptoms as those in West Germany .
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