Example sentences of "a [adj] days [adv] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I 'm off for a few days again so i 'll be a bit quiet .
2 The state of emergency was lifted a few days later after pollution levels had fallen .
3 A few days later before Anne went to work her mother asked her to go for bread .
4 They had thus sighted the continent a few days later than Bellingshausen 's sighting in longitude 2°15' W. Bransfield 's manuscript chart is in the hydrographic department of the Admiralty .
5 Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) .
6 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 .
7 A few days later when Tess came back from looking for work , the children came running out and danced round her .
8 Andrew Fowler was caught a few days later when police discovered the caravan at the girl 's former home .
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