Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the district registry had appreciated the urgency and the short period of the order without doubt they would have sought directions and the result would certainly have been that the appeal would have been set down at some other convenient centre or , as happened , in London at or before the beginning of this term and would have been heard within a few days , that is , the appeal would have been heard approximately a month ago . |
| 2 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 3 | He said : ‘ Many of the problems concerning the children in Orkney would have been solved in the old days by the pressure of the community . |
| 4 | The Executive Committee have decided that we should be represented and a static display stand has been booked for the five days . |
| 5 | Great advances have been made since the early days of computing , when specialist skills were needed for such interaction . |
| 6 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 7 | Now a play 's been written about the darker days of his life in Worcestershire . |
| 8 | The quick redemption of bonds seems to have been envisaged from the early days for this kind of comment recurs. that the repayment took over 75 years to accomplish is remarkable , but that it is so is attributable to three things , compounded by other factors such as two World Wars . |
| 9 | The tone had been set from the earliest days of the BBC . |
| 10 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 11 | The principal vehicles for this analysis are the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods , because of its major importance in private commercial law ; the Unidroit Conventions on International factoring and International financial Leasing , with which the writer has been involved from the early days of their conception ; and the rules and trade terms promulgated by the International Chamber of Commerce , which demonstrate how much can be achieved by the contractual approach to the harmonization of commercial law and practice , and which will be given particular attention later . |
| 12 | Adam was in Room 17 , little knowing that this was where the Russian agent Hans Putiloff had been killed in the early days of this affair . |
| 13 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 14 | A further fifty had been lost in the old days , as they were swung into place by teams of sweating slaves ( and there had been slaves aplenty , in the first days of the Power ) and the great rings had gone crashing into the depths , dragging their unfortunate manipulators with them . |