Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] [prep] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first team squad were then told to get out of Glasgow for a few days , prompting a rush for the airport . |
| 2 | He had also brought a chess manual , because he had heard that children could play chess brilliantly , but after ski-ing with Sam for a few days he decided that there was no call to be beaten by a five-year-old at two things at once . |
| 3 | The England midfielder added : ‘ I 've only been with Leeds for a few days but that 's long enough to know I 've made the right decision coming here . ’ |
| 4 | Oag has just returned from Tokyo , and will set off for a climbing exhibition in Grenoble in a few days . |
| 5 | A couple of years ago I was staying in Malham for a few days and decided to set out one morning for Attermire by the old pack lane from Settle to Malham . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 7 | Have to be in Paris for a few days . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , exactly — ’ she hrumphed some more — ‘ I said she was still going to be in Maidstone for a few days though we were thinking of moving her to a private hospital . |
| 9 | Her mother 's not too well — she 's staying on in Hazelbury for a few days , ’ Leith speedily calmed his fears . |
| 10 | could you put me in touch ? ’ 'Sorry he 'll be back from America in a few days ' bingo . |
| 11 | She could stay in Edinburgh for a few days longer , she said , until he was ready to go back . |
| 12 | How do you feel about going to Czechoslovakia in a few days . |
| 13 | We went to Weston-super-Mare for a few days . |
| 14 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 15 | When King George died in 1952. and Queen Mary died in 1961 , Edward returned to Windsor for a few days . |
| 16 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 17 | I knew I was going to Stafford for a few days , but I do n't think , I 'll be there a fortnight . |
| 18 | We 're going to Kinsai in a few days . |
| 19 | Yeah , you could pop up to Scotland for a few days . |
| 20 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
| 21 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 24 | She 'd get to California in a few days . |
| 25 | We 'll be going to London for a few days next month to find suitable premises , so I 'll be able to go down and see Mum and Dad and the children . |
| 26 | The meeting had been convened at the initiative of Yugoslavia as current chairman of the NAM , and the Yugoslav Foreign Minister Budimir Loncar said at a press conference afterwards that " the foreign ministers could not agree on a joint statement , but opted instead for a plan of action to prevent the war 's escalation … starting with the rapid deployment of a mission of three to four ministers to Baghdad within a few days " . |