Example sentences of "spend a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | And you could spend a few days there . |
| 2 | She could quite happily spend a few days here , just remembering her own childhood : the train set , the beautifully designed doll 's house , the football game … it made her sad that she had no children of her own so that she could cling on to that childhood that she so often missed . |
| 3 | They will spend a few days with their hosts in the classroom , before going on a camping trip in the Dutch countryside . |
| 4 | She could spend a few days in Prague just enjoying herself , and … ’ |
| 5 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 6 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 7 | Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . |
| 8 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 9 | We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad . |
| 10 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 11 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 12 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 13 | ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres . |
| 14 | And then of course er when I got to New York we were quite friendly with all the people on the boat you know that made great friends with some of them and er I had two or three places to go , I had spent a few days at the World Fair and then I flew down to Washington and er then I came back again . |
| 15 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 16 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 17 | After spending a few days at Snaefellsness , our final goal was the fabulous Lake Mývatn . |
| 18 | Extend the Taj Triangle Tour by spending a few days in the fascinating city of Kathmandu . |
| 19 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 21 | When my oldest son Blair said farewell sadly to the Outer Hebrides and came to work in Aberdeenshire , my wife Ann and I arranged to spend a few days there , fishing and exploring a country that neither of us knew . |
| 22 | It was probably in the course of Hazlitt 's three-week visit that Joseph Cottle also arrived , finally persuaded by Coleridge and Wordsworth that he should travel down to spend a few days discussing the intended volume of poetry . |
| 23 | A Salvation Army officer friend had arranged for Ann to spend a few days away from home to help her resolve her feelings about the crisis before starting to tackle the difficulties in her marriage . |
| 24 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 25 | Three weeks earlier they had flown out to Rome where they had been able to spend a few days as guests of the staff and students at the Venerable English College before setting out from St Peter 's Square on Wednesday , 30th September to cycle more than 1,700 miles across Italy , Switzerland and France , then up through England . |
| 26 | Then at the beginning of summer Maria wrote to say that she was coming to spend a few days with them . |
| 27 | The advance party has now returned to base camp to spend a few days feeding up on military rations of sausage and beans and chocolate and pear ready for the final push . |
| 28 | But we forgot to dispose of the discarded furnishings , and six months later when I went to spend a few days with a senior Burmese colleague , he showed me with great satisfaction his small-town church , furnished with the discarded pews , pulpit , litany desks , with the collection bags being changed according to the ecclesiastical season ! |
| 29 | The idea is to spend a few days at a hotel and all you have to pay for are the meals and any extras , such as wine . |
| 30 | So after giving details of my ‘ movements ’ to the police , I drove up to Nottingham to spend a few days with the family . |