Example sentences of "a few days [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
2 | So , Bob gets the person who recommended him to recommend me , and a few days later the ticket , and the rule book , arrives : |
3 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |
4 | ‘ A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight . |
5 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
6 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
7 | If a few days later the salesman 's firm sends the customer a letter accepting the customer 's offer , the contract is made , not during the visit , but a few days later . |
8 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
9 | A few days later the sheep-shearing began . |
10 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |
11 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
12 | A few days later the dealer would ring and persuade his client to invest in another stock , on the grounds that for making money a portfolio of several shares was needed . |
13 | A few days later the father told a project worker , ‘ You know that was the first time I felt I had something to offer to the school . ’ |