Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] days ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So how much money will you get for the three days ' work you 've done ? |
| 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 | After a few days ' dialling he knew it by heart . |
| 4 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 5 | Only after a few days ' exposure to New York sunlight did they readjust to local time . |
| 6 | His compatriot , Alexandra Ledermann 's Punition , who beat Navet in the Paris World Cup round but who had a difficult flight to Del Mar , looked much more at ease at the official horse inspection here , after a few days ' rest . |
| 7 | After a few days ' rain the course was just right for the spectators anyway , plenty of mud . |
| 8 | Feedback and evaluation of the two days ' work was made before the participants dispersed . |
| 9 | Miraculously , when invited for the Hunt Ball , he had asked if he might bring an old school friend who was staying with him , hiring horses for a few days ' hunting . |
| 10 | ‘ I think everyone is probably making far too much fuss , and Angela has just taken off for a few days ' holiday . ’ |
| 11 | There are charges on transactions , with a minimum of £30 for each six months , offset by a small allowance that varies with the seven days ' notice currency deposit rate . |
| 12 | Even with a few days ' rehearsal it was an unnerving experience . |
| 13 | Backpackers must make adjustments — quite easy to do with a few days ' walking under your belt , not so simple when your planning trips in your living room . |
| 14 | could you put me in touch ? ’ 'Sorry he 'll be back from America in a few days ' bingo . |
| 15 | If she could fit in a few days ' break in order to attend the wedding in Andorra she would , she promised , and Peter returned to Rocamar the next day , leaving Sarella to close one chapter of her life and get on with the next . |
| 16 | Our plan was to meet there in a few days ' time , once our researches in New York were concluded . |
| 17 | In a few days ' time the President of the Society for the Protection of the Selva Sur , David Ricalde , would tell me , ‘ Some of these naturalists , it 's not their fault but they do n't know their stuff . |
| 18 | In a few days ' time , perhaps sooner , he would die quietly of pneumonia , peacefully suffocating as the bloodstream slowed and the deprived lungs surrendered their function . |
| 19 | The girls arrived at the Gare du Nord , as we will do , and then , as we will in a few days ' time , they made for the Gare de L'Est and the journey into central Europe . |
| 20 | This would on past experience coax the crocuses out in Hyde Park , only to be spiked by frost in a few days ' time . |
| 21 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 22 | Well , we had a talk and she invited me to come back in a few days ' time . |
| 23 | There was nothing wrong with enjoying her own interests and social activities — including Martin Ward 's party in a few days ' time . |
| 24 | Pete suggested that in a few days ' time he could take her out to the nearest big town on the coast , and there she could look for clothes in the department stores and check out the library for the addresses of any useful organisations or people to contact . |
| 25 | I 'm lucky , she told her reflection , and in a few days ' time I 'll be far away from this place , and without Piers around I 'll be able to put things back into perspective . |
| 26 | Except , a small protective inner voice prompted her hurtfully , that I 'm no long-term threat to your person or your property because in a few days ' time at the very most I shall be out of your land and out of your life . |
| 27 | What did it matter if there would be no long-term future for them together — that in a few days ' time they would be separated by the cold grey expanse of the North Sea ? |
| 28 | I hope that a message can go out that there is a new resolve in the west and that we are determined to ensure that the killing , the destruction and the brutality stop , and that , as a new year dawns in a few days ' time , it dawns with a new sense of hope for the battered , beleaguered people of Croatia . |
| 29 | I do n't want you to throw them away today , er , because you might actually in a few days ' time think of some use for them . |
| 30 | " I too shall be attending the ceremonies prior to a few days ' relaxation at the hill station of Dalat . " |