Example sentences of "a few days of [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 . |