Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 31 | After the wedding , a reception was held in the New Farm Loch Community Centre , followed by a few days honeymoon in York . |
| 32 | He had n't shaved for a few days and a sickly smell clung to his clothes and hair . |
| 33 | It was left behind a few days ago , Ramsbum does n't know by whom , and no one 's claimed it . ’ |
| 34 | Most items are available from stock , or can be delivered within a few days . |
| 35 | Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death . |
| 36 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 37 | If it is already well dried and can be carted in a few days , this method involves less work than tripodding . |
| 38 | They could easily have waited for a few days . ’ |
| 39 | But as long as you spot the early signs you should be okay — just keep the red bits covered for a few days . |
| 40 | In the British test-tube baby programme , viable embryos are either implanted or destroyed after a few days . |
| 41 | An example of a condition caused in this way is phenylketonuria — one of the so-called ‘ inborn errors of metabolism ’ — an inherited biochemical disorder for which babies are now routinely tested within a few days of birth . |
| 42 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 43 | Where a slight flow of water is guaranteed for a few days , for example in crevices and gullies that conduct snow-melt trickles , mosses gather among the lichens . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | The effect was electric : the girl was released within a few days ; the man remained in jail and in fact served a very long sentence . |
| 46 | It gets larger , and dormant chick genes become reactivated within a few days . |
| 47 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |