Example sentences of "a few days [pers pn] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
| 2 | The captain had told her that they were now off Porto , and that within a few days they would be entering the Tagus . |
| 3 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |
| 4 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 5 | In a few days we shall announce our exact demands which must be fulfilled before we release Liam Shakespeare . |
| 6 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 7 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 8 | In a few days he would release him . |
| 9 | You 'll take him home with you to avoid gossip , and then in a few days he 'll be fit enough to leave the country . ’ |
| 10 | In a few days he will catch a boat for South America . |
| 11 | ‘ In a few days I 'll have some plan . |
| 12 | ‘ In a few days I 'll be your father , and I 'll punish you just like that , as often as necessary ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ If Steve does n't come back for a few days I 'll probably have to go into Palma and see the airlines and the tourist board myself . ’ |
| 14 | I 've got a few days I can go into work disco poster , I 've got ta do this and that . |
| 15 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 16 | In a few days I will send for you again . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Having used version 5.5 for only a few days I could never go back . |
| 19 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 20 | In a few days you will hear that Stalingrad is completely in German hands . ’ |
| 21 | Within a few days you will have identified the relevant muscles needed to stop the flow . |
| 22 | After a few days it may go onto their chest or settle in the liver causing a bilious fever and even jaundice . |
| 23 | This raises public awareness and the press is always interested in hard statistics ; so if you can say several hundred people signed the petition in an afternoon or over the course of a few days it will undoubtedly earn you publicity . |