Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] days [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where time permits , leave the final draft of any report you have written for a few days and then read it again with fresh eyes . |
| 2 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 3 | He had been the weaker of a hatching of two males and would almost certainly have died within a few days if local ornithologists had not taken him from the nest and reared him themselves in the hope that a home might finally be found for him as worthwhile as the Zoo … |
| 4 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 5 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 6 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 7 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 8 | They are much more risky , tending to be highly volatile — rising quickly but often falling faster , indeed sometimes trading is suspended for a few days so you are locked in until trading resumes usually at a much lower level . |