Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | only for the first few days |
| 2 | Obviously for the first few days after I could n't sleep . |
| 3 | So for the next few days this column will present several different ways of assessing corporate performance for 1989 . |
| 4 | The therapist agreed to see David daily for the next few days in order to provide him with support . |
| 5 | When the engagements are abroad , I work feverishly in the last few days and nights to create a reasonably finished piece of work — just in case we crash . |
| 6 | Thomas died in December , but it is only in the last few days that Scotland Yard has received information from the FBI about why he was killed . |
| 7 | And the conservative group is running the council in the sense that labour has scrambled , obviously over the last few days , to reduce its tax level to something closer to the tories and I 'm going to stand with my fellow liberal democrats tonight and vote for a higher figure because , not only because I think that there 's sort of things we want to do in our budget , are b are b are better and and would be better done than not done , but because I think there 's a fundamental political ethical issue here and it 's one which has been confronting this country for a great many years and which is going to be crucial in the next election . |
| 8 | ‘ Are you going to arrange to be away for the next few days ? ’ |
| 9 | Choose a sun protection factor of 15 or more for the first few days . |
| 10 | If we 've not answered your question in this programme , I shall be writing to you directly during the next few days . |
| 11 | ‘ The way is clear now for a base rate cut within the next few weeks , possibly within the next few days . |
| 12 | If it falls much further over the next few days , Mr Major will have no choice but to raise interest rates . |
| 13 | I watched him carefully in the next few days . |
| 14 | This behaviour occurred repeatedly over the next few days , the fish ‘ playing dead ’ every time I returned into their field of vision . |
| 15 | To achieve this , however , we must get publication underway within the next few days . |
| 16 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 17 | You will have to change and dry the blotting paper frequently during the next few days , so either take a good stock with you , or carefully remove one sheet at a time and iron it dry before replacing it . |
| 18 | Well for the first few days I found enough energy to take an occasional dip in the pool and play a leisurely game of bowls . |
| 19 | So much happened so fast in the next few days . |
| 20 | It is funny , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , how reluctant I was to say anything like that here in the first few days , how instinctively I felt it might endanger the entire project , how everything might collapse around me the moment I said that . |
| 21 | He told a news conference : ‘ I am very happy with their progress so far and I think they will continue to do well over the next few days . |
| 22 | Once or twice during the next few days Bathsheba saw Troy working in her hayfields . |
| 23 | At least for the next few days , allow yourself to be more impulsive . |
| 24 | I think it would be extremely prudent of you to keep a very low profile indeed for the next few days . ’ |
| 25 | A spokesman for the Northern Constabulary at Inverness denied the accusations of harassment but confirmed that the site had been visited twice in the last few days and that several people had been charged . |
| 26 | We all worked extremely hard in the next few days , cleaning all the rooms and preparing the food . |
| 27 | Yet in the last few days the Romanians have started underplaying the role of Timisoara in sparking off open opposition to Ceausescu , highlighting instead the undoubtedly fearless role of the citizens of Bucharest . |
| 28 | I was a little disappointed it had not been there , but I was quite sure he would write again in the next few days . |
| 29 | so , erm I mean think we 're in their hands and that 's why I was a bit apprehensive about doing publicity for it at such an early stage because I like to see i 's dotted and t 's crossed er but however I 'll chase them up again in the next few days |
| 30 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |