Example sentences of "[art] few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take . |
| 2 | Some time during the few days ' leave , when talking about my life — not work , of course — at Bletchley , I must rashly have let slip the fact that occasionally I was tired . |
| 3 | Researchers working with this substance set about trying to remove a fertilized ovum from a woman during the few days that elapse between actual conception and the implantation of the cell into the uterus — where it must be to develop into an infant — and then replacing it . |
| 4 | Don Cameron was Head of Talks , and I was usually in charge of his visit , which kept me busy for the few days he would be with us , twice a year . |
| 5 | ON ONE of the few days with sunshine recently I was shambling through Cavendish Square in the West End of London . |
| 6 | During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case . |
| 7 | In spite of being so fair , his skin had taken on quite a deep tan in the few days they had been there . |
| 8 | WONDERFUL WOBURN produced a number of surprises this year at the annual gathering of the de Havilland Moth Club in the picturesque grounds of Woburn Abbey over the weekend of August 15/16 although strong winds and generally poor weather in the few days leading up to the event meant that the number of foreign Moths arriving was down on previous years . |
| 9 | The few days I spent on that trip will stay in my mind as some of the most pleasant times I have ever spent . |
| 10 | For example , of all the spare-time activities reported by affluent workers and their wives in the few days before being interviewed 62 per cent were in or about the home itself . |
| 11 | They have somehow , in the few days since the rains arrived , become biblically sleek . |
| 12 | The few days she had spent in Thomas Sachs ' company had already begun to have an effect on her . |
| 13 | Furbush ( 1989 ) used data for five-minute intervals on the S&P500 index for 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 — the period of the stock market crash and the few days just before . |
| 14 | The trip to Italy went well as did the few days when one of the twins , ( full name Alexander ) was with us . |
| 15 | Sitting near the window , with its view of the fire escape , smoking a joint he 'd bought in an amusement arcade , he wrote in a notebook about visiting Spanish towns , and the beaches , then about the few days in London because his imagination ran out on Spain with the end of the brochure about flamenco dancing and bullfights , and because what he was doing was more immediate . |
| 16 | In all her short life Sally-Anne had never before encountered the squalor which she had seen in the few days since she had arrived in these poor streets in the hinterland between London Docks and Stepney . |
| 17 | In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep . |
| 18 | Particularly , ’ she added cuttingly , ‘ since the few days I have been here I have found disagreeable in the extreme . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ I am not persuaded that the use of the personal pronoun ‘ him ’ in the phrase ‘ sustained by him ’ was intended by parliament to have the bizarre result that there was no-one to injure or to sustain injuries in the few days before the child was born . |
| 20 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 21 | On 26 March 1991 he was returned to Safi Prison and in protest he began a hunger-strike which resulted in his falling into a coma , due to his illness , a few days later . |
| 22 | That it is n't that you 've got up on the wrong side or eaten something which did n't agree with you or just need a few days ' rest . |
| 23 | When fermentation has finished the ‘ green beer ’ is run into conditioning tanks for a few days . |
| 24 | After a few days the head will collapse and leave a brownish pancake . |
| 25 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 26 | I was diplomatically ill for a few days and then I returned to my normal work . |
| 27 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 28 | Somewhat naïvely , I had expected it all to be sorted out then and there , but the chap just took my name , gave me a form to fill in and told me to come back a few days later for a full interview . |
| 29 | My father did in fact sneak up to see me a few days later . |
| 30 | For a few days they should be given a cool , shaded position ; after that as much light as possible . |