Example sentences of "over [art] [adj] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Francis Tidbury received a certain amount of sympathy over the following few days , but the public were so outraged at the brutality involved , it carried little weight . |
| 2 | Some Age Concern groups , social services departments and other organisations run a variety of hospital discharge schemes which can help people over the first few days or weeks after a stay in hospital . |
| 3 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 4 | ‘ We received enough indications over the past few days that he could have gone through with it , ’ a senior spokesman said . |
| 5 | ‘ Not many of the original lot that landed at La Breche five days ago , ’ I replied , ‘ There have been a lot of casualties since the landing , many of them caused by mortar fire over the past few days . |
| 6 | The newsheet had started to appear over the past few days as the villagers began to return to their homes . |
| 7 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 8 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in influenza patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 9 | BEDS are being cleared in several London hospitals because of the large increase in flu patients in the capital over the past few days . |
| 10 | THE sickening events in Romania over the past few days now leave Albania as the last resort of old-style Stalinism . |
| 11 | Sterling lost all gains made over the past few days after the Germans cut a quarter per cent off their interest rate . |
| 12 | The Collector had sat a good deal in this chair over the past few days and it had come to affect his habits of thought . |
| 13 | My legs are shaded by the dust which has gathered over the past few days , so that the contrast is like a Coppertone ad , with the puppy pulling a little girl 's knickers off . |
| 14 | Over the past few days he had fished a little with Burkett , been to Crosthwaite Church , laid a light siege to the maid Christine , cast out a few nightlines about the town and done a calculated amount of promenading . |
| 15 | Over the past few days , however , Harry noticed that she seemed reconciled to the fact that they were fast becoming an inseparable threesome . |
| 16 | He had been very noticeably kind over the past few days : thoughtful , and seeming more mature and sensible , as though the imminence of marriage had indeed begun to bring about that change of which my elders spoke — the settling down , as it was called . |
| 17 | She had seen more of him over the past few days than she usually did , however , so perhaps there was something … |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been watching you over the past few days . ’ |
| 19 | Over the past few days , police officers have asked me why a community has to wait until someone is injured or killed before an offender is sent to prison for a lengthy period . |
| 20 | The moment for bargain hunters to enter the market was ideal as the FTSE had slipped sharply over the past few days . |
| 21 | Also on Sept. 18 UK Prime Minister John Major referred in a television interview to " fault lines in the ERM revealed over the past few days " , and said that there was no imminent prospect of the UK returning to the ERM , which itself needed reform , while Bundesbank president Helmut Schlesinger said in Washington on Sept. 21 that serious negotiations would be needed before sterling could be readmitted to the ERM . |
| 22 | I wondered if you might have seen either of them or heard from them over the past few days . ’ |
| 23 | The discovery that she was — goodness knows why — still in love with her husband was something she had fought hard and long against over the past few days . |
| 24 | I wish he would keep his eyes off me , Laura thought grimly , feeling certain that she must have experienced almost a lifetime 's amount of tension over the past few days . |
| 25 | She 'd never had a weight problem , of course , but she must have lost a few pounds over the past few days , because the waistband of the shorts she was wearing this morning — which she had purchased in New York only last Saturday — was already far looser than it had been . |
| 26 | And over the past few days it had developed an infuriating habit of wandering unerringly back to the subject of Adam Burns . |
| 27 | In the past year they have lost a bishop in a love-child affair but over the past few days they had more faith in prayer than in their politicians when it came to saving the Digital computer plant . |
| 28 | Police said two city sports stadiums used to house detainees over the past few days were filled and a third had to be used . |
| 29 | OVER the past few days , The Scotsman has been examining the evidence for a so-called ‘ moral crisis ’ in Britain . |
| 30 | They have been over the past few days erm usually it was chocolate and apricot . |