Example sentences of "but [prep] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The meeting broke up with mixed feelings , but after a few days it became clear that we were in business . |
| 2 | But after a few days of insipid campaigning there was grumbling back at base about the way the campaign was going . |
| 3 | But after a few days he saw the sparks of it begin to reappear and within a week Mould was chattering away as usual and ran about the school thinking of a new plan . |
| 4 | But after a few days Mcduff lost interest . |
| 5 | But after a few days , with no sign of the weather clearing , he began to feel like a prisoner . |
| 6 | Had the French attempted to move inland he would , it seems likely , have fought a defensive battle on ground of his own choosing , but after a few days , with not a shot fired on either side , the French re-embarked and de Tourville sailed home with his fleet intact . |
| 7 | But after a few days of Margery 's company ‘ the worshipful woman sped herself fast out of Akun with all her retinue ’ . |
| 8 | But after a few days Clare began to worry . |
| 9 | The initial police response was good but after a few days I could see they were getting swamped with other cases and I had to do something . |
| 10 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 11 | But in a few days ’ time it might look a little different . ’ |
| 12 | Dr. Scambler had given up much hope for his life , but within a few days he was surprisingly recovered . |
| 13 | Sparrow Force landed at the island 's north-west port of Koebang to protect its airfield , but within a few days the Independent Company , with some Dutch troops , was sent east along the coast to occupy Dili in the Portuguese half of the island ( see map p. 77 ) where they landed on 17 December 1941 . |
| 14 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |