Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 2 | David Lee from ENERGIZE thinks Electro is on its way back , and could speak for many hours about the halcyon days before Electro meant toddlers break-dancing in the streets , title-dropping classics like Man Parrish 's ‘ Hip Hop Be Bop ’ , early Mantronix , and Shannon . |
| 3 | Noah 's faith was persistent ; through the taunts of unbelievers as he worked ; through the rainstorm ; through the tragedy of knowing that men and women were dying in the flood ; through the long days and nights waiting for the next stage , as the waters went down . |
| 4 | But they refreshed me , sustained me through the subsequent days and weeks , like water in a camel 's hump . |
| 5 | After a few days or weeks , the sulphur particles are precipitated as rain or snow . |
| 6 | Mrs Browning likes to have me with her now , no other person will do , and we talk of the old days and Miss Henrietta slipping off to Regent 's Park to walk with Mr Surtees Cook and the squeezes she loved to hold in Wimpole Street when her father was away . |
| 7 | There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session . |
| 8 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And she needed that sort of help ; because although nothing had happened in the four days since Adam had returned from Starr Hills , the nights were becoming more than she could bear . |
| 19 | Darren had been a poor feeder even in the early days and mother remembered spending hours with him trying to get him to take the bottle . |
| 20 | In the two days since Patrick had left the house with the maid , Katherine had had her men take London apart looking for them . |
| 21 | In the following days and weeks my mother and I took turns to visit him every day ; we realized how much our presence meant to him . |
| 22 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 23 | I was always surprised in the old days that Margaret did n't carve ) , and a large potato in its jacket . |
| 24 | Whilst this may have been commonplace in the old days as vendors moved from technology to technology there is little need for it now , as Monotype are adequately demonstrating . |
| 25 | It was a lesson learned from hard experience at other clubs , and one clearly illustrated by Arsenal 's own past , in the troubled days before Chapman took over . |
| 26 | ‘ The coercion may of course be of different kinds , it may be in the grossest form , such as actual confinement or violence , or a person in the last days or hours of life may have become so weak and feeble , that a very little pressure will be sufficient to bring about the desired result , and it may even be , that the mere talking to him at that stage of illness and pressing something upon him may so fatigue the brain , that the sick person may be induced , for quietness ' sake , to do anything . |
| 27 | He had his beloved wife Helen by his side in the last days and hours of his life . |
| 28 | Not even daily rushes either — the copter 's only coming in every three days because Vic thinks it 'll break our concentration or something no doubt posher intellectually than that . |
| 29 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 30 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |