Example sentences of "[vb pp] a few days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 2 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 3 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 4 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 5 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 6 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 7 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 8 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 9 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 10 | This was sold a few days later for £8.58 million ! |
| 11 | Highlights were shown a few days later on Eurosport but there is no doubt that the tremendous effort from Jeremy Bates and Mark Petchey in the two opening singles matches against Henri Leconte and Guy Forget respectively , and the Bates–Neil Broad battles with the Frenchmen , ( unbeaten in Davis Cup doubles ) , deserved a wider audience . |
| 12 | Ruth had decided to say she 'd been unwell , and had been given a few days off to recover her strength . |
| 13 | This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion . |
| 14 | ‘ If Ossie had been sacked a few days later , I would have accepted it as part and parcel of football . |
| 15 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 16 | Its severed head is found a few days later , wrapped in plastic , and used as a football by some local kids . |
| 17 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 18 | I was never able to take him up on this kindness , alas , since he and half the drugs squad were themselves arrested a few days later . |
| 19 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 20 | New account holders will receive their opening pack immediately , to be followed a few days later by their Route Seventeen Card . |
| 21 | In April Elsie Streek and Myrtle Mott entertained elderly and disabled people with a day of movement and display organised by Thameside Institute ; this was followed a few days later by an afternoon with the Woolwich Salvation Army Group . |
| 22 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 23 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 24 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 25 | He was recaptured a few days later in Liverpool in an operation involving more than 60 police officers and a helicopter . |
| 26 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |
| 27 | The fifth member , Salvador Sánchez , had returned a few days previously . |
| 28 | Sharpe was released a few days later , but there were to be many more visits to the hospital as worries grew about his condition . |
| 29 | The two agents were arrested in May 1990 , but were released a few days later on grounds of insufficient evidence . |