Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] a [det] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | After her death , he advertised for a housekeeper with a view to matrimony but unfortunately the first lady who took the job decamped after a few days , taking with her his prized possessions and helped by a male friend who apparently had kept in the background . |
| 2 | The bad news came within a few days ; there was no place available to him at Oxford this year in the Martinmas term . |
| 3 | Everyone of the gang was known to the police and the first arrests came within a few days : |
| 4 | Jock Lewes came in a few days later with a different tale to tell . |
| 5 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 6 | Laser projectors could beam whole programmes into the mind , where the programmes became like your own lived memories , though they faded in a few days . |
| 7 | This course began with an all day Saturday event looking at learning styles and modes of behaviour using a variety of psychometric tests . |
| 8 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 9 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 10 | Mrs Rumney rang within a few days . |
| 11 | Grandma lay for a few days drifting in and out of sleep , unaware of everything about her , until one afternoon when Julia and Carrie were sitting with her . |
| 12 | When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises . |
| 13 | Mother had been taken ill suddenly and at once removed to hospital , where she died within a few days . |
| 14 | When Miss Louisa had a second more severe stroke at the end of August , and Miss Ellen another heart attack , both old ladies died within a few days of each other . |
| 15 | Unfortunately old Mr and Mrs Linton caught the fever too , and died within a few days of each other . |
| 16 | This vigorous phase continued for a few days , with the column of steam and ash climbing eleven kilometres high above the volcano and showering ash over points up to 480 kilometres distant . |
| 17 | He left after a few days as I said . |
| 18 | We stayed for a few days in Paris on the way home , and Elizabeth wrote to me at our hotel . |
| 19 | When Crawford left for London , there was another five weeks ' filming still to do , and that overran by a few days . |