Example sentences of "a [det] days [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Within a few days a unit was formed in Halling under the command of Captain Wanstall . |
2 | The incident came at an awkward time , preceding by a few days a visit by the Chief Rabbi . |
3 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
4 | Though it may be possible to get professional or voluntary back-up for a few hours a day or a few days a week , an old or very sick and disabled person needs constant nursing and supervision round the clock . |
5 | Within a few days a reply came . |
6 | After a few days a population of adherent migratory cells is found surrounding the initial explant , which by various criteria , including contribution to melanocytes in vivo ( 13 ) , appear to be a relatively pure population of neural crest cells . |
7 | In the space of a few days an apartment building is burned down by drug dealers who suspect a rival crack gang of operating in its basement . |
8 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
9 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
10 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
11 | As soon as this is big enough to cling to , the speed of construction accelerates and within a few days the wall has become a semicircular cup of creamy white interlacing strings that is just big enough to hold the customary clutch of two eggs . |
12 | In just a few days the centre will be a hive of activity . |
13 | For a few days the president agonized over whether to exercise his veto , but , in the end reluctantly signed what was now a Congressional rather than a presidential bill . |
14 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
15 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
16 | There were but six people on board , all of whom were killed and although the event was duly reported in the press and other media as one might expect , the world proceeded with its normal business and within a few days the matter had receded into the background . |
17 | However , after a few days the coral becomes accustomed to its resident , and behaves normally . |
18 | Within a few days the oil slick , first reported on Jan. 24 , had grown to measure 55 km long by 15 km wide . |
19 | ‘ There are five of us now and we open five and a half days a week to deal with debt problems , ’ she said . |
20 | But it was coming up to thirty nineish and the war breaking out so the one and a half days a week started to change to five days , which gave you a w a regular wages of about thirty shillings . |
21 | Well w we just er opened it s I think it was three and a half days a week . |
22 | The new row follows uproar over Janet Sainsbury 's appointment at £11,720 a year for two and a half days a week , as chairman of South Glamorgan Family Health Authority . |
23 | when it got to the stage that we only open like , one and a half days a week |