Example sentences of "[noun prp] [art] few days " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 32 | Muge , who had accused government members of being involved in Ouko 's murder , had been threatened by Labour Minister Peter Okondo a few days before his death ; Okondo later resigned from the government . |
| 33 | The Sealink ship they attempted to board , the Nord Pas de Calais , was the same ferry which Greenpeace protesters in inflatable craft had held up for several hours during an attempt to stop it docking at Dover a few days earlier . |
| 34 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 35 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
| 36 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 37 | On July 4 Gandhi promoted a number of junior ministers ( see pp. 36027-28 for previous portfolios ) ; D. L. Baitha was promoted to Minister of State for Defence Production replacing Chintamani Panigraphi who had been appointed Governor of Manipur a few days earlier [ see above ] ; Mahavir Prasad became Minister of State for Mines ; P. Namgyal became Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs and Chemicals and Petrochemicals ; Sumati Oraon became Minister of State for Environment and Forests ; Radhakrishna Malaviya became Minister of State for Labour and Parliamentary Affairs ; Saroj Khaparde was shifted from Minister of State for Health to Textiles ; Giridhar Gomango was given independent charge of the Communications Ministry ( following the death of the Communications Minister in May — see p. 36657 ) ; and Rafiq Alam became Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare ( independent charge ) , a post which had been vacant since the January appointment of Moti Lal Vora as Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh . |
| 38 | He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier . |
| 39 | We both met Walter a few days ago . |
| 40 | Macnab showed them a postcard , sent to him by Joyce from Berlin a few days before . |
| 41 | On a Unix panel at the Etre conference in Vienna a few days ago , Microsoft vice president Steve Ballmer capped a loud , argumentative , personally unattractive defence of NT by admitting it was going to be ‘ hard to sell . ’ |
| 42 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |