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

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1 After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow .
2 There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session .
3 When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises .
4 The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office .
5 The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios .
6 Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks .
12 We all thought right okay , we 'll get out for a few days and matters 'll come to a head , get sorted out and we 'd be back at work , happy as anything you know , everything sorted within a couple of weeks .
13 Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death .
14 On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat .
15 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 .
16 All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer .
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