Example sentences of "[art] few days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furbush ( 1989 ) used data for five-minute intervals on the S&P500 index for 14 , 15 , 16 , 19 and 20 October 1987 — the period of the stock market crash and the few days just before . |
| 2 | The trip to Italy went well as did the few days when one of the twins , ( full name Alexander ) was with us . |
| 3 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , he was retained and the secretary was instructed to write to the parish officers informing them of the same ; they were told to pay the subscription within a few days otherwise Spies would be discharged from the infirmary . |
| 5 | She could stay in Edinburgh for a few days longer , she said , until he was ready to go back . |
| 6 | We were to stay a few days longer here , for Flora 's sake . |
| 7 | It would help if , perhaps , you could take a few days longer to prepare a considered report . " |
| 8 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 9 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
| 13 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 14 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 15 | The chances of the man who was seen as a contender for the presidency until a few days ago , the former leader , Mr Alexander Dubcek , winning the post are now seen as receding . |
| 16 | A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms . |
| 17 | John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross , rather than angry , about the recession . |
| 18 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 19 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 20 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 21 | The engine gave every satisfaction until a few days ago , when with an enormous bang , the crankshaft broke . |
| 22 | We both met Walter a few days ago . |
| 23 | There was a short lull following this exchange , and then the door opened and in stepped the young man who had bought the mice and the toffee a few days ago . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 26 | A few days ago I received some news which I think should be shared with all Warwick Bass owners . |
| 27 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 28 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 29 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 30 | The cottage is mine now , for mama told me — only a few days ago , it was — that it would be mine one day . |