Example sentences of "few days [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To coincide with the Year of the Maze , Chatsworth 's famous yew labyrinth is being opened for just a few days during the year , the next openings being on August 18 and September 15 . |
| 2 | It took a few days for the butis to decide to employ me , since I clearly was not about to join the Community , but I kept coming back and mucking in and it just sort of happened . |
| 3 | The feel of Master Harry 's mallet in his hand , the way the heel of it swung in his palm , filled him with a fever of ambition and impatience , and he could not wait the threatened few days for the assay . |
| 4 | I am staying for a few days at the Dale End Hotel while I explore the district , and I 'd like to know about the Brownies ' Bridge , as I am to do with Brownies . ’ |
| 5 | For a few days at the beginning of August 1920 , it was widely believed that the Government was preparing to send a new British Expeditionary Force to relieve the Polish Army . |
| 6 | It was an act of creative destruction , but in those first few days at the refuge what had seemed positive began to seem rootless and resourceless . |
| 7 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 8 | So a mass suicide had erm you know the people were planning a mass suicide in the first few days of the siege . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Despite the dubious seaworthiness of our ship , for the first few days of the storm my sense of danger was eclipsed by the exhilaration of at last thundering in the right direction . |
| 11 | In public perceptions the gap between Conservative unity and Labour unity narrowed sharply in the first few days of the campaign and again at the end , but actually increased very slightly in the third week . |
| 12 | The Labour leader described the Home Secretary 's comments as ‘ peculiar ’ and insisted that race should remain firmly in the background as a potential issue in the last few days of the campaign . |
| 13 | He said the Liberal Democrats had experienced a squeeze in the last few days of the campaign as the Tory message that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would open the door to Labour hit home . |
| 14 | He said the Liberal Democrats had experienced a squeeze in the last few days of the campaign as the Tory message that a vote for the Liberal Democrats would open the door to Labour hit home . |
| 15 | On radio , in final few days of the campaign to elect America 's 42nd President , they still found time to talk to Stephen Kaplin , a vampire and head of the oldest vampire institute in the world . |
| 16 | In the first few days of the revolt the Kurds ' peshmerga guerrillas ousted the army , secret police and Baath Party — the three pillars of Mr Hussein 's regime — from most of Iraqi Kurdistan , including the oil city of Kirkuk . |
| 17 | This hormone is produced by the developing embryo within a few days of the egg being fertilised . |
| 18 | During the first few days of the Blitz I had to go to Kings Cross and there I saw whole streams of weary and frightened East Enders pouring through the station , intent only on getting away from the bombing with what bits and pieces of their belongings they had been able to salvage ; with their small children crying and bewildered , and family pets bundled up in rugs or protesting loudly in makeshift cardboard boxes . |
| 19 | When I went to Germany within a few days of the end of the war , it was rather remarkable to go to a Luftwaffe air field with many aircraft , all intact and fully serviceable , but with their tanks — dry not a drop of oil was to be found on those bases . |
| 20 | ( June 22-July 23 ) Although Jupiter is now sparkling away in your own birth sign and you in turn should feel decidedly more buoyant or optimistic , unfortunately , the atmosphere at home is likely to remain strained during the first few days of the month . |
| 21 | In the first few days of the experiment , you may feel a need for sweetness : make sure you have enough dried fruits or artificial sweeteners to satisfy cravings . |
| 22 | A political truce was called within a few days of the outbreak of war ; a pact to end contested by-elections was first signed on 6 August , and a joint recruiting drive began before the end of the month . |
| 23 | We flew back to Mahe and straight on to Praslin for a stay of a few days with the intention of taking day-trips to the smaller islands of Cousin and La Digue . |
| 24 | So after giving details of my ‘ movements ’ to the police , I drove up to Nottingham to spend a few days with the family . |
| 25 | To Rachel that all now seemed as if it had been in another time , another world and it had only been in the last few days with the reappearance of David Markham that the memories had been revived . |
| 26 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 27 | During the last few days before the event , as spectators arrived from , Ayrshire was busier than it had ever been in its history . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 29 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 30 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |