Example sentences of "over the [num ord] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
| 2 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 3 | It had become increasingly clear over the last few days that the anger of East Germans is focused on the Communist Party and that it can only be a question of time before the party has to relinquish its leading role and allow political competition . |
| 4 | The fact that the hordes of reporters who live in the burrows of the Palace of Westminster got it wrong — and have since tried to justify getting it wrong — has given me , and many of my friends who knew the score pretty accurately before the result , much quiet pleasure over the last few days . |
| 5 | ‘ The number of members has , over the last few days and weeks , dropped more dramatically than a barometer before an impending typhoon . ’ |
| 6 | Having fallen back from about 360p to 320p over the last few days , Fisons ' top management was busy round at Hoare Govett yesterday , trying to reassure nervous institutions investors . |
| 7 | Market makers have been running ‘ flat ’ trading books over the last few days to minimise their risk . |
| 8 | Defending her life and being jolted and shaken over the last few days had left her exhausted . |
| 9 | It was Christmas Eve and Agnes had wondered over the last few days if she had heard aright on the night she had gone to the closet , because the next morning her father had come blithely into the kitchen and said , ‘ Your mother is having a lie-in this morning ; take her a cup of tea along and a bit of toast . |
| 10 | I hope and pray that you will win — God willing , you will because you have all the ability in the world — but I have discovered over the last few days that there are people prepared to go to great lengths to stop you . |
| 11 | He came into the room with a broad grin on his face and could hardly wait to tell me that not only had he managed to approach several people at work and ask them questions , but that he had decided to put himself to the test over the last few days and had , in fact , gone up to complete strangers in the street to ask them the time . |
| 12 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 13 | Yet she had to admit he had changed over the last few days . |
| 14 | He 's managed to rise above the drugs stigma which has hit the British team over the last few days . ’ |
| 15 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
| 16 | IBM top brass is said to have been meeting with Hewlett-Packard officials at various locations around the US over the last few days to lobby for their support and an announcement may now be imminent . |
| 17 | One can only hope that in their visits to these firms over the last few days , Ray Noorda and Roel Pieper were sufficiently persuasive . |
| 18 | More interestingly , sources say that HP is currently weighing a 20% stake in Taligent to cement the new relationship , while IBM brass have been meeting with HP officials at various locations around the US over the last few days firefighting for their support . |
| 19 | Have you put in additional hours at work over the last few days ? |
| 20 | I 've been planning for this , too , over the last few days . |
| 21 | made out a thermal comfort test on G P House over the last few days er , and we 're now awaiting their results . |
| 22 | I feel like Judas , but there 's a way out ; not with any honour , perhaps , but I 've looked at myself pretty closely over the last few days and I 've had to admit to myself that I 'm not quite as wonderful a guy as I liked to think I was . |
| 23 | ‘ Anything could have happened over the last few days . ’ |
| 24 | She felt it unnecessary to mention some of the incidents that had taken place over the last few days , least of all the confrontation at the cottage the previous night . |
| 25 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 26 | Over the last few days I have listened , with fingers crossed , to Conservative politicians saying , yes … of course … they are always happy to reconsider any policy because they want what is best for the country and all members of our community . |
| 27 | Mrs McHugh said her work for reconciliation would continue : ‘ It 's good to see ordinary people come out today , especially in the wake of the bombings over the last few days . |
| 28 | Now er over the last few days we 've been er talking quite a lot about er that statue you know the one that 's down by er down by Marks and Spencers that 's the best way to describe where it is the leaf stand the er the one that looks like a tulip and water dribbles down the side of it . |
| 29 | Karl Gesner has had to swallow quite a few blows to his ego over the last few days . |
| 30 | Well the list has certainly took off over the last few days . |