Example sentences of "[verb] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the way they 've run up Ben Nevis and Snowdonia … swum across Loch Lomond and Derwent Water and cycled the rest of the way … they 're hoping to raise thousands for charity and after 1200 miles have earned a few days off … |
| 2 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 3 | The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen . |
| 4 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 5 | The strike was averted a few days before the scheduled date , after Confindustria , yielding to pressure from the government as well as from the unions , agreed to resume pay negotiations in the sectors concerned , and from June 1 , 1991 , to enter into negotiations on a new wage bargaining and indexation system . |
| 6 | Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home . |
| 7 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 8 | But he added that patience had limits and he might wait a few days or two weeks . |
| 9 | When my mother and I called on him he said that if we could wait a few days he would find the right frame and have it stove-enamelled black . |
| 10 | He would wait a few days before having his hair cut , so that they could not think that they had made him . |
| 11 | I can wait a few days . ’ |
| 12 | These concerns were forgotten a few days later when Diana rose at dawn and travelled to the Lambourn home of Nick Gaselee , Charles 's trainer , to watch him ride his horse , Allibar . |
| 13 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 14 | One occupation which requires people to work a few days now and then is market research , and you will usually see advertisements for this work in local papers . |
| 15 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 16 | The liquid is now officially called beer but it needs a few days further conditioning in the brewery , to purge some of the rough alcohols , before it is ready to leave for the pub . |
| 17 | They had only met a few days ago . |
| 18 | They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany . |
| 19 | A bottle of vintage champagne was cracked open , and a toast drunk to Virginia 's exam results received a few days earlier . |
| 20 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
| 21 | On the death of his wife Lambarde feared he might lose the right to stay at Halling and petitioned a request to Lord Burghley through his friend Lord Cobham , to ask for custody of Maximilian and a lease to the Palace , which was granted a few days later . |
| 22 | When they stopped , sometimes at the junctions between seasons , Tallis could feel the flow of time , the great spiral storm that curled around some focus a few days ' riding to the north . |
| 23 | And the fact that having a baby and adjusting to motherhood are only permitted to cause a few days ' disruption must be a bad thing — when what mothers really need is adequate time to rest ( between feeds ) , plenty of boosts to their ego , lots of love and confidence building . |
| 24 | THE GUEST WHO COMES TO STAY FOB A FEW DAYS You have to know , or find out , what foods your guest likes and loathes — otherwise the entire stay will be an embarrassing misery . |
| 25 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 26 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 27 | The Politburo , at its meeting a few days later , described the summit as a ‘ major event in international life ’ whose main result had been the ‘ deepening of the political dialogue between the Soviet Union and the USA ’ ; and the dialogue did , indeed , continue under Reagan 's successor George Bush , first at a storm-tossed ‘ get to know you ’ summit off Malta and then more formally in the course of an official presidential visit to the United States in 1990 . |
| 28 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 29 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
| 30 | Wait a few days till dumbo gets bored and strolls in the streets . |