Example sentences of "[adv] [art] [det] days " in BNC.
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1 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
2 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
3 | So a few days later I moved to an hotel , the Hotel España ( solo apartamentos ) on the Plaza Españia . |
4 | There was no way I could have refused even if I had wanted to , so a few days later I found myself shaking in the BBC 's hospitality suite , very glad to have Mary and Chris with me for moral support . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
7 | This was confirmed only a few days ago when yet another visit to the garage became necessary , this time through no fault of the Metro 's . |
8 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
9 | Only a few days later , in evidence to a parliamentary committee , he had the temerity to recommend controls on mortgage lending — in direct conflict with present government policy . |
10 | I stayed there only a few days , and then for some reason I was removed to the Colegio Fray Luis de Leon , where I was given a somewhat larger and more comfortable room . |
11 | Thanks to Peterborough 's Hospital at Home ( HAH ) system , Jessica has spent only a few days in the local district hospital . |
12 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
13 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
14 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
15 | Moreover , few families can have such secure or cheap fuel supplies today as those who can obtain their annual needs from only a few days work spent cutting , drying , hauling and stacking peat . |
16 | Not only has much explanation had to be included , but it is also difficult to make many useful comments after a visit of only a few days . |
17 | Many Down 's babies are miscarried , stillborn or live only a few days . |
18 | If the child is certain to live only a few days , the dilemma is tough indeed . |
19 | The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ . |
20 | By this time , the Egyptian army had entered southern Palestine but Abu Khadra was to watch them , only a few days later , retreating along the beach towards Sinai . |
21 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
22 | Caroline was only a few days old when Wordsworth left for home , and during 1793 , marooned in England without an income or particular hopes of finding one , he learned helplessly of the rise of the Terror in France following the overthrow of the Girondins in June that year . |
23 | At first his visit was intended to last only a few days . |
24 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
25 | Between seeing my surgeon and being X-rayed there were only a few days . |
26 | A glass or plastic one measuring about 18″ × 10″ × 10″ will hold 50 or so full-grown ones : often a single nettle head collected when the caterpillars are only a few days old will contain at least that many . |
27 | Some British officers had been sent to help the Madeirans with their resistance , but they had arrived only a few days before the Portuguese troops landed and had not had time to organize . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | It was bad enough that the anniversary of my David 's death was only a few days away . |
30 | The cottage is mine now , for mama told me — only a few days ago , it was — that it would be mine one day . |