Example sentences of "a few days [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | These have short periods , from a few days to a few weeks . |
| 2 | resolve and spirit after a few days without a bath , a week without a change of clothes . |
| 3 | ( Many of us take a few days off a year due to PMS , but about one in five women takes a fortnight or more ) . |
| 4 | ‘ This young lad was getting people to mind Sam for a few days at a time . |
| 5 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 6 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 7 | Initially for a few days at a time , then for weeks , and eventually whole months . |
| 8 | Inland , you can get close to the countryside with a few days on a farm or perhaps pamper yourself with a luxury hotel . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 11 | John went over to Mosquito Island where he has established James for a few days with a government tent , man and fitting-up . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 17 | A few days before a new election was due to take place , at the beginning of March , a mysterious fire destroyed the Reichstag and the Communists were blamed for that outrage . |
| 18 | Eventually , we reached the stage where she could avoid it altogether a few days before a period , but she continued to drink one or two small cups a day at other times . |
| 19 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |
| 20 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
| 21 | She had stayed a few days in a cheap hotel near the Bristol docks , too bruised mentally to contemplate going anywhere . |