Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 2 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 3 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 4 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 5 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 6 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 7 | Within a few days of his visit you receive details of two sous-chefs , both well versed in haute cuisine , both having trained with chefs of international repute , and both now ready to manage their own kitchen . |
| 8 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 9 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 10 | I 'll expect you at the Presbytery in a few days with your donation . ’ |
| 11 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 12 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
| 13 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 14 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 15 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 16 | A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience . |
| 17 | The freedom , has , of course , been criticised — especially after the ferocious attack on Lord Goddard made by Mr Bernard Levin in " The Times " a few days after his death . |
| 18 | A few days before her arrival , I went with two friends to the Royal Palace , dressed up as the Three Musketeers . |
| 19 | Only a few days before his state 's 40th anniversary celebrations , he has been obliged to accept a deal permitting several thousand of its citizens to flee to the capitalist Federal Republic . |
| 20 | ‘ Teach me to live , that I may dread/The grave as little as my bed ’ , he had written ; in this spirit he carried his shroud in a portmanteau and put it on a few days before his death at Longleat in 1711 , which his friends considered to have been advanced by his fasting and mortifications . |
| 21 | A few days before his death Sviridenko 's investigation supposedly led him to a very senior government official involved in purchasing art works . |
| 22 | Josselin 's reputation is based on the detailed diary which he kept from 5 August 1644 until a few days before his death . |
| 23 | ‘ I think that the young painters are more intelligent than the others , the old ones can see in me only a disastrous rival ’ , he said to his son in a letter written only a few days before his death . |
| 24 | Muge , who had accused government members of being involved in Ouko 's murder , had been threatened by Labour Minister Peter Okondo a few days before his death ; Okondo later resigned from the government . |
| 25 | It is understood that a few days before his death the young airman shot down a Dornier bomber . |
| 26 | His son Carl later recalled that a few days before his father 's death there was already a terrible stench of decomposition , the advanced state of which apparently made an autopsy impossible . |
| 27 | Since the Bölkow is designed to go places — Nigel had returned from Cannes only a few days before my flight — this is a most useful addition allowing the relaxed study of maps , approach plates etc , without the constant monitoring of the aeroplane . |
| 28 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |