Example sentences of "[noun pl] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 2 | Miss Maynard herself echoed Brian 's words a few days later . |
| 3 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 4 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 5 | His hopes of a memorable 100th Test appearance lay in ruins a few days later . |
| 6 | After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early . |
| 7 | The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature . |
| 8 | That Jesus 's entry into Jerusalem was fraught with political implications becomes evident in the Gospels a few days later . |
| 9 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 10 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 11 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 12 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 13 | But so he should , for project coordinator at Blackfriars , with partner travelled to Germany to represent Great Britain in the European Bridge Championships a few days later in March . |
| 14 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 15 | Under commitment accounting , the manager could simply issue orders a few days before the year-end to ‘ fill up ’ the budget . |
| 16 | Staff should be discouraged from carrying over anything more than a few holidays a few days holiday from one year to the next , unless it 's for specific purposes , such as climbing , catching dingo or visiting Aunty Mabel in New Zealand . |
| 17 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 18 | 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 ! |
| 19 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 20 | One member of the defence team estimated that Newall 's brother , Mark , a broker based in Paris who was arrested on the same charges a few days ago and now faces extradition from France , has paid more than £100,000 so far in legal costs in Gibraltar . |
| 21 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 22 | This condition is more aptly termed pre-menstrual syndrome ( PMS ) because tension is just one of a number of other emotional and physical disturbances experienced by women a few days ( or two weeks ) before the onset of menstruation . |
| 23 | The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling . |
| 24 | Everybody attending the seminar was sent papers a few days in advance ; these were principally copies of actual experts ' reports ( with the names changed ) which would form the subject matter of the two mock trials . |