Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 2 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 3 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 4 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 5 | Suspecting a mild heart attack , his doctor had him admitted to hospital but tests were negative and he was discharged after a few days . |
| 6 | The four have undergone doping tests and the results are expected within a few days . |
| 7 | Since he had been commissioned in November 1858 , he had ‘ almost wholly devoted ’ himself to the building , and tenders were expected in a few days . |
| 8 | Lepine was not cremated for a few days yet , until after the despatch of a couple of his victims also being tended to at the Côte-Des-Neiges cemetery , opposite the mountain , alongside the University of Montreal , where Marc Lepine joined his victims in the silence at the centre . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Overdrafts to customers are often granted for a few days or weeks . |
| 11 | The collection from the nest was made within a few days of the fledglings leaving the nest , and the broken up and trampled remains of pellets and bones from the nest can be mostly attributed to the regurgitated pellets of the fledglings . |
| 12 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 13 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 14 | His two infant sons had died within a few days of one another in April 1541 . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | Father and son had died within a few days of each other … |
| 17 | ‘ I 've told her he 's travelling between America and Mexico and ca n't be reached for a few days . |
| 18 | In explosive breeding , all reproductive activity is packed into a few days , with the result that it is highly synchronised . |
| 19 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 20 | The new ruling was a financial consideration to prevent ratepayers from , in effect , subsiding replays played within a few days of the original game . |
| 21 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 22 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 23 | Understandably Diana found it hard to concentrate on the cookery course she had enrolled in a few days before her father suffered his stroke . |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever put the clothes there might reasonably have expected that they would be found within a few days ? ’ |
| 25 | She says a woman on an earlier expedition had snow blindness and as soon as she came down to a lower altitude , she was put on a drip and recovered in a few days . |
| 26 | Those girls who attempt to escape are found in a few days . |
| 27 | All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer . |
| 28 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 29 | The town , protected only by a dry-stone wall , surrendered within a few days , on 8 January 1746 . |
| 30 | Their proposal will not be finalised until a few days before the F&S meeting on 5th March , but seems likely to be for a 9% pay increase ( the lower figure of price inflation and the average national wage increase ) , with no reduction in differentials . |