Example sentences of "that [prep] [art] few days " in BNC.
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1 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
2 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
3 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
4 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
5 | Perhaps the most useful thing she did was to teach me the language , so that in a few days I could speak it quite well . |
6 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
7 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
8 | But they hope that in a few days forty orphaned children will be on their way to a new life in England … leaving behind them an horror of war which has already killed thousands of innocent youngsters . |