Example sentences of "a few days [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Under commitment accounting , the manager could simply issue orders a few days before the year-end to ‘ fill up ’ the budget . |
| 32 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |
| 33 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 34 | Dr Pirnia came to the palace a few days before the departure to say goodbye to the Queen . |
| 35 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 36 | A few days before the poll , an attempt was made to interest The Guardian in a story that Harold Wilson was involved in land speculation . |
| 37 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 38 | A few days before the vote on partition in the UN General Assembly , Abdallah secretly met Jewish Agency officials . |
| 39 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 40 | A few days before the outbreak of war , instructions had been received to prepare and assemble the ambulance trains . |
| 41 | The timing of Nguyen 's visit was regarded as significant by some commentators , coming a few days before the arrival in Moscow of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin [ see p. 38189 ] . |
| 42 | My term had ended a few days before the start of Crispin 's leave , so we had agreed to travel up separately , and meet on Moila itself . |
| 43 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |
| 44 | A few days before the wedding . |
| 45 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 46 | Just a few days before the launch the original pilot , Ken Mattingy , had been exposed to German measles and was found to have no immunity , He was replaced by his backup , Jack Swigert , who managed just two days prime-crew training before leaving for the Moon ! |
| 47 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 48 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 49 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 50 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 51 | On Dec. 14 , a few days before the end of the fourth CFE round , the two sides presented their separate draft treaty texts . |
| 52 | A few days before the hearing of the father 's application , the local authority informed his solicitors that they would not be opposing the application . |
| 53 | On one level they were just marking time , spending a few days in the country at a friend 's house . |
| 54 | About ten days after the Club dance , my mother and father and I , and Anne and her parents drove up to spend a few days in the Rest House at Kota Belud , a beauty spot on the upper slopes of Kinabalu . |
| 55 | What you need is a break or a holiday so count your pennies and weigh up your chances of a few days in the sun or short spell staying with friends . |
| 56 | After a few days in the nest , however , the chicks will peck more at the herring gull model ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 57 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |
| 58 | After a few days in the cave , he entered the farmhouse , saying that his end was close . |
| 59 | It 's best to store the panelling for a few days in the room in which it will be used , to allow the moisture content of the wood to settle before installation . |
| 60 | If the war was n't actually forgotten , it was put aside for a few days in the district around Screehaugh . |