Example sentences of "in a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was due in court in a few days to begin divorce proceedings and the threat of Johnny ‘ B ’ helped to dilute the worry . |
| 32 | For in a few days , this same man would be reporting back to the most feared woman in Britain . |
| 33 | ‘ In a few days I 'll have some plan . |
| 34 | ‘ In a few days , when the funeral 's over , I want you to come and stay with me , ’ she said softly . |
| 35 | Paul took the stuff home , used it , and in a few days the chancre dried up and went away . |
| 36 | In a few days The Shamen take their millennial grooves and positive paganism to Salt Lake City . |
| 37 | ‘ I have an important function to attend in a few days ’ time . |
| 38 | One of the doctors managed to get the laundry going again and in a few days the hospital was evacuated to a small country town . |
| 39 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 40 | But in a few days she will leave England and follow me to Argentina . |
| 41 | He is expected to leave hospital to return to Jordan in a few days , and wo n't need any further treatment , the royal doctor added . |
| 42 | A massive advertising campaign will be launched in a few days . |
| 43 | This was very promising indeed and Paul , the breeder , sounded like a really nice , caring sort of chap , so I told him I was very interested , and would call with a definite answer in a few days . |
| 44 | In a few days there will be a new office for Major Kypov at the end of the Administration block . |
| 45 | In a few days I will send for you again . |
| 46 | He 'll be in a walking plaster in a few days . |
| 47 | Meg laughed , ‘ Bless you , no , chick , we 'll be off to Somerset in a few days . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
| 49 | Adela fixed up a meeting between the king and archbishop , and in a few days everything was arranged . |
| 50 | On March 2nd 1872 , a letter came from the Mayor saying that the Corporation 's building would be ready in a few days and that they would be willing to receive patients under ‘ such arrangements as may be deemed best adapted to check the progress of the epidemic ’ . |
| 51 | When he returned he said that he had only £15 but could get the balance ‘ in a few days ’ . |
| 52 | Go and see her in a few days . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | I 'll expect you at the Presbytery in a few days with your donation . ’ |
| 55 | This would on past experience coax the crocuses out in Hyde Park , only to be spiked by frost in a few days ' time . |
| 56 | I am shortly to find out , for I am booked to fly out to the Falkland Islands in a few days ! |
| 57 | However we agreed to visit Cedars together in a few days ' time . |
| 58 | Doubtless many iron workers put in a few days at a time on different sites ; until quite recently putting out much of the work to contract in small stints on a ‘ labour-only ’ basis was a regular practice in mineral extraction , so leading tax collectors to class earnings as profits rather than wages . |
| 59 | Did one yesterday for a man who was due to be executed today , erm , I do n't know whether he was or not , but he probably in a few days time . |
| 60 | I think Sega are conning people who pay £45 for a game that the complete in a few days . |