Example sentences of "for a [adj] days [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hearings ran for a hundred days during the summer and autumn of 1977 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 3 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 4 | My mother went on an outing for a few days with the Blind Club . |
| 5 | But this means that the soil for seed-sowing can be done simply by covering a patch for a few days with a sheet of polythene anchored by bricks or stones — in the absence , of course , of cloches . |
| 6 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 7 | One day before we had moved up there I was at the melin for a few days with an actress friend from London when I announced my attendance at a jumble sale that afternoon . |
| 8 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 9 | John went over to Mosquito Island where he has established James for a few days with a government tent , man and fitting-up . |
| 10 | ‘ Oh — it 's my son — he 's got cystic fibrosis , and my wife 's gone away for a few days with a friend for a break . |
| 11 | Then he covered it up quickly with a look of studied indifference ( very unconvincing ) and mumbled some nonsense about you being in hospital for a few days for a check-up . |
| 12 | While Agassi and Sampras , with supreme pre-final confidence , had flown home from Frankfurt after the ATP Finals for a few days of relaxation in Florida before returning to Europe , Noah had taken his squad off to a Swiss tennis resort , where they trained for 6 hours a day , offered themselves for 30 minutes daily to the press for customary grilling and focussed wholly on the task in hand . |
| 13 | My boyfriend at the time , two friends and I , decided to kick around the Loch Tay area for a few days between Christmas and New Year , since the only decent hotel we could find open was the Ledcreich Hotel at Balquhidder . |
| 14 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll stay for a few days at least — if she can put up with me . ’ |
| 19 | Many mums who have apparently short labours have actually been gently dilating for a few days without realising it and without having any of the other traditional ‘ signs ’ of labour : a ‘ show ’ as the plug to the cervix is expelled , waters breaking or the first contractions . |
| 20 | Green water of a consistency like pea soup is familiar to most pool owners , for even in well established pools this condition may occur for a few days during early spring when the water is warmed by the sun , so algae appears before the submerged oxygenating plants have had a chance to start growing again . |
| 21 | Jack and Alison were going for a few days to Amsterdam . |
| 22 | He was less prominent in the action than William Craig and he felt sufficiently distanced from it to be able to absent himself for a few days in the first week of the strike when he went to Canada to attend a funeral . |
| 23 | However luck was not with us for , as a reward for jumping in the intervals of appalling freezing fog , he got flu as a Christmas present and was delayed for a few days in hospital at Ringway . |
| 24 | Paddy Mayne 's veteran A Squadron returned from the Great Sand Sea to Kufra for a few days in mid-November , having successfully raided airfields around Gazala , familiar territory from the past . |
| 25 | Wallington notes that road-blocks ‘ were widely used , especially within and on access roads to Nottinghamshire , but also elsewhere — notably ( for a few days in March 1984 ) at the south entrance to the Dartford tunnel . |
| 26 | I was very happy at Emmanuel Church and the University Congregational Society , and it is a joy for my husband Michael and me that we are still in touch with so many friends from CongSoc , and in fact some of us still meet every year for a few days in the Lake District . |
| 27 | You will not be in a condition to care about shaving , for example , for a few days in all probability anyway . |
| 28 | What is the best way to protect my plumbing system while I am away for a few days in cold weather ? |
| 29 | It finally erupted when Mozart asked for permission to stay on for a few days in Vienna to collect some outstanding fees . |
| 30 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |