Example sentences of "[adv] a few days [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 2 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 3 | For some other companies it is uneconomic to open for just a few days between bank holidays . |
| 4 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 5 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 6 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
| 7 | The case is being heard just a few days before counter action aimed at holding up attempts to sell the house if they are forced to leave . |
| 8 | I could hardly conceive what it must be like in winter : the incessant darkness ; the piercing cold when the spray froze as it hit the deck and formed great blocks of ice at the bows ; howling gales and never-ending work ; then a few days in port and out to sea again , week after week , month after month . |