Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [noun] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within a few days of Prince Albert 's death , young Henry Joseph Titford , aged nine , fell ill with tubercular bronchitis . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's spending a few days with Maria Luisa in Valencia on the mainland , ’ Fernando told her at last . |
| 3 | In April the Prince went off to the Kalahari Desert for a few days with Sir Laurens Van der Post , to see for himself the society that his friend had written and talked about so much . |
| 4 | On the second anniversary of the Lockerbie disaster , a few days after Pan Am obtained leave to file its third-party suit against the US government , Steven Emerson aired an ‘ exclusive ’ on Cable News Network about the wave of speculation linking the DEA with the bombing of Flight 103 . |
| 5 | Backstage at Leeds Grand Theatre , a few days after Swan Lake 's royal premiere elicited a five-minute standing ovation from the audience , Gable talks long and intelligently about the controversial production . |
| 6 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 7 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
| 8 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |