Example sentences of "[prep] a few 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
| 9 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 10 | 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 . |