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Example sentences for "few days"

  • She moved cautiously for a few days, then timidly began to spend money.

  • You're only going to be here a few days longer.

  • I never noticed her until a few days ago.

  • When a few days later we followed the long line of richly-robed princesses into the audience-hall, all this was changed.

  • She recovered rapidly for a few days until I regarded her as practically out of danger.

  • A few days after my encounter with the first captain I met the second on the street.

  • When I went to see him a few days later I found him again in his horrible rags.

  • He must have been amused when, a few days later, he received a letter from "Aunt Susan" herself, thanking him warmly for his changed opinion of her and hoping that it meant the conversion of his soul to our Cause.

  • Miss Willard died a few days later, with a suddenness which seemed to be a terrible shock to those around her.

  • If my week of work brought me enough to buy a pair of cheap shoes and feed me for a few days I would, I decided, continue my theological course.

  • But may God make me even as that young man if I be not mightier yet in a few days.

  • A few days ago no one could have convinced me that it meant anything at all to me, or ever could.

  • Now after this, take her out alone, for a few days, and give her as much as she wants.

  • You see, a few days before I showed her a letter from my brother Jerry, because I thought it might interest her.

  • He had been spending a few days at Springfield, to fill a friend's pulpit, and had been consulted by Miss Hatchard as to young Harney's plan for ventilating the "Memorial.

  • A few days of autumn cold had wiped out all trace of the rich fields and languid groves through which she had passed on the Fourth of July; and with the fading of the landscape those fervid hours had faded, too.

  • I am staying for a few days at Creston River.

  • To the House Mr Harding went, and left his note, not finding Sir Abraham there.

  • Rowland had received a few days before a letter from a lady of his acquaintance, a worthy Scotswoman domiciled in a villa upon one of the olive-covered hills near Florence.

  • He came in a few days to Roderick's studio, one afternoon when Rowland was present.

  • This Betty saw after the passing of but a few days, and wondered how far he was conscious or unconscious of the thing.

  • One passes down a street one day, and the next there is a great gap where some building is being torn down--a few days later, a tall structure of some sort is touching the sky.

  • Before going to Stornham Court they spent a few days in town.

  • Once he went up to town, and, after a few days' absence, came back looking more haggard than before, and wearing a hunted look in his eyes.

  • I am so entirely ignorant of them, that I thought a few days ago, the Constable was very well with the Queen.

  • All things are ready for her marriage with the Prince of Savoy, who is expected in a few days.

  • Altogether her stories and her simulations have been convincing enough to get for her on many occasions good attention during at least a few days.

  • We were interested to study a long letter quite coherently written to her mother a few days before we saw the young woman, and about the time when she first told her long story to the department manager.

  • Chicago with merely a small traveling bag and money sufficient only for a few days.

  • We know definitely that Inez has received attention, during periods varying from a few days to six months, in no less than 18 different hospitals.

  • After investigation for a few days, it was decided she was hysterical or a simulator.

  • A few days later he saw at his club a gentleman of his acquaintance, named Austin, who was famous for his intimate knowledge of London life, both in its tenebrous and luminous phases.

  • I was able to make arrangements for a few days; things are not very lively just now.

  • A few days later I received this extraordinary letter.

  • In just a few days, a relaxed Miles felt a peace, a solace that he had never known before.

  • Of course, my friend, we are partners, and you will be very wealthy in a few days.

  • Whatever was going on, the story was so strong, that we can always print it in a few days once we sorted it out.

  • A few days ago I received some revealing documents papers on a certain company.

  • Within a few days ZS6DN had QSOs with SV1DH and SV1AB.

  • A few days later we turned the tables on her.

  • But then an educated person can pick up most any trade in a few days, well enough to get along.

  • He could follow in a few days or a week--and then-- Well, at least they would be free and could have many happy days together.

  • But exposures, privations, dissipations that would have done for a muscularly stronger man than he would have left no trace upon her after a few days of rest and sleep.

  • But I should like to wait a few days--to have a little more time to myself.

  • They had found each other again, a few days later, in an old country house full of books and pictures, in the soft landscape of southern England.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    any case; canst thou; considerable value; few days; few days after the; few days before his; few days before the; few drops; few feet above the; few feet from the; few inches; few lines; few miles; few miles from the; few moments; few paces; few rods; few steps; few times; few yards; for the first offence; little common; once before; pale pinkish; public improvements; round and