Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the [num ord] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been loafing a bit for the last few days . |
| 2 | ‘ Putting on this performance has brought everyone together and there has been a buzz around the building during the last few days . ’ |
| 3 | Can you imitate an academic ? — like not washing or changing your shirt for the next few days … ? ’ |
| 4 | Harry had worked as tirelessly as his sister for the last few days ; now he sank down on to a stool beside his cannon out of sheer weakness , and began to weep at the thought of the wasted powder and the wasted water resulting from this misfortune . |
| 5 | She had enough money for the next few days , and she was n't hungry yet . |
| 6 | Parents , on duty in turn , kept the egg warm and brooded the tiny chick for the first few days after hatching . |
| 7 | ‘ They wo n't give you any grief in the next few days , ’ he said . |
| 8 | The remaining members will be balloted on strike action within the next few days . |
| 9 | The end result was an undignified collapse in the last few days ’ ( Marsh 1978 : 176 ) . |
| 10 | Balancing the books is going to be tricky … going on recent balance sheets around three million pounds will be needed up front to pay off debts and buy the Maxwell family shares … and then presumably more money will have to be invested to beat off losses of fifteen thousand pounds a week … the club 's managing director Pat McGeough is hoping to do a deal within the next few days … its not simple … its not clear cut … but for the first time win weeks United are confident about the future |
| 11 | It has a majority of just 16 in the 630-seat lower house but Mr Amato is expected to call a fresh confidence vote in the next few days to prove he still has parliamentary approval . |
| 12 | This news provided ample scope for gossip in the next few days . |
| 13 | Against that , Labour in the person of Harold Wilson had a more widely respected leader then it has now , and many experienced Tory canvassers are convinced that thousands of former Tory voters who are now thinking of defecting will gloomily return to the Tory fold within the next few days as they come face to face with the possible reality of a Kinnock government . |
| 14 | Do not do as I did and arrange to work only to find that the childminder changes her mind within the first few days . |
| 15 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 16 | As I watched the den over the next few days , I began to appreciate the set pattern of this mink 's activity . |
| 17 | Standing back from the main road , surrounded by green grass , was the memorial to those men of the village and the surrounding hamlets who had died during the Great War , and behind the memorial was the primary school which I was going to join in the course of the next few days . |
| 18 | In fact it was Jack 's sense of humour that kept her feelings in proportion during the next few days . |
| 19 | If an egg has been discharged from the ovary during the last few days it will now be on its way through the tubes . |
| 20 | I 've put a lot of work into the last few days . ’ |
| 21 | Hope he comes down with a cold in the next few days . |
| 22 | Nineteen companies have indicated their intention to bid for the contract to computerise Hungary 's tax system , with three more companies expected to join the fray in the next few days . |
| 23 | A few more officers were drifting in from their various weekends , and the chatter turned to the likelihood of their being called out on an ‘ Agile Blade ’ exercise in the next few days . |
| 24 | The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign . |
| 25 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 26 | Have you put in additional hours at work over the last few days ? |
| 27 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 28 | I remember Yvonne saying something about being away on a job for the next few days . |
| 29 | I 've been reading the fucking Bible for the last few days . |
| 30 | Even if you do n't continue with breastfeeding after the first few days , giving your baby colostrum ( the fluid produced by the breasts immediately after the birth ) has major benefits and is obviously better than not breastfeeding at all . |