Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Within a few days of writing my planning notes a reasonable ( by UK standards ) day dawned . |
| 3 | Within a few days of seeing me for the first time , he summoned me once again to tell me that the Labour Party did not wish to continue with the action . |
| 4 | Within a few days of laying I place the egg mass in a dish , and squirt it with tank water from a pipette . |
| 5 | But a defiant Wilkinson said : ‘ We have had a few days of mourning after the European Cup defeat , but this match gives us another route back into Europe and we know how important it is to stay on it . ’ |
| 6 | In fact it works so well that within a few days of installing it friends were asking if they could fax me printed documents that they had always wanted to store on disk . |
| 7 | On 29 September 1955 , with just a few days of filming to go , Dean turned up at a gay party at Malibu which culminated in a bitchy foray between Dean and a former male lover who accused him of dating women purely for publicity . |
| 8 | Within a few days of opening your account you will be given your own cheque book . |
| 9 | A personalised pay-in book will also be posted within a few days of opening the account . |
| 10 | Jenny came back from Rome and rang Sara up within a few days of arriving home . |
| 11 | Howard had tried all the proprietary athlete 's foot remedies , but found they were only partially effective ; the infection would always return with a vengeance within a few days of discontinuing with the ointment or powder . |
| 12 | I 'd fetch her home , clean her up , straighten her out and take care of her for as long as she 'd let me , but the call of the wild was strong and after a few days of sleeping on the couch , she 'd vanish again . |
| 13 | Only a few days after watching his countrymen beaten at Twickenham , Bertrand Ventura was at his new desk in Gloucester this week . |
| 14 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 15 | My secondary education began in Cardiff in September 1939 , a few days after listening to Neville Chamberlain 's broadcast . |
| 16 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 17 | American Ed Webster , one of the Buxton speakers , said a few days after visiting the Roaches that he had never seen so many climbers at a cliff . |
| 18 | Team manager John Birch ( who shortly afterwards rocked the county by resigning , a few days after signing a new three-year contract ) explained : ‘ I have always felt that it was contrary to the best interests of a professional game to operate with a mainly semi-professional staff . |
| 19 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 20 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 21 | A few days before issuing this warning the ICRC had sent more than 600 tonnes of food and medicine to Baghdad . |
| 22 | After a short incubation period the fertilized eggs transform into medusa — tiny pear-shaped animals with rapidly beating hair-like cilia which are then released into the water and have a limited ability to swim and survive among the plankton for a few days before settling on the sea bed . |
| 23 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 24 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 25 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 26 | I 've never seen him in a flap , or anything less than pleasant whether dealing with an actor who 's completely shaved his head only a few days before shooting a strict continuity commercial , or calming down the ‘ real ’ Rene Goodman who has rung the Sun to complain that the latest BT commercial takes her name in vain , and people keep asking if she 's getting divorced . |