Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | You see , with costs like this , even if you take a few days off you 're a million quid in the hole ! ’ |
2 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
3 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
4 | Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf . |
5 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
6 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
7 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
8 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
9 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
10 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
11 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
12 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
13 | Within a few days of his visit you receive details of two sous-chefs , both well versed in haute cuisine , both having trained with chefs of international repute , and both now ready to manage their own kitchen . |
14 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
17 | A fortnight and a few days with me . |
18 | ‘ After a few days with me he starts to calm down and see things in perspective again , ’ she reveals . |
19 | The madman has just flown in from Rome on a whim , to spend a few days with me here . |
20 | They will spend a few days with their hosts in the classroom , before going on a camping trip in the Dutch countryside . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
23 | I 'll expect you at the Presbytery in a few days with your donation . ’ |
24 | you have to wait a few days for it to clear do n't ya ? |
25 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
26 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
27 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
28 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
29 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
30 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |