Example sentences of "in [adv] a [det] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | In only a few days , he had learned it was better to keep silent in that respect . |
| 2 | At the beginning of the fourth month , a young man who had been in only a few days attacked Carter with a knife . |
| 3 | ‘ Two accidents in just a few days . ’ |
| 4 | In just a few days over eighty people came forward , eager to support , and to add their voices and their knowledge of their neighbours to the case . |
| 5 | Black spot has to be taken very seriously because , given the right conditions , it can ravage and virtually destroy a rose garden in just a few days — I have seen this happen , and it is not a pretty sight . |
| 6 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 7 | Before that , she realised , during the three years she 'd known him , he had never moved her to any great depths of emotion — not the same soaring heights and plummeting depths she 'd known in just a few days with Fen . |
| 8 | In just a few days the centre will be a hive of activity . |
| 9 | In just a few days , more than three hundred thousand copies have been sold . |
| 10 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |