Example sentences of "[num] days [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days later a new formation arrived , 5 Indian Division . |
| 2 | Three days later a wind came up and revived the fire which spread to and damaged the plaintiff 's land . |
| 3 | Part of the M1 was closed for the second time in three days following a multiple pile-up in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 4 | Ten days ago a police bullet had hit the explosive which Terry Place had hidden in a carrier bag in the tunnel . |
| 5 | Five days later a general amnesty for prisoners held on security charges was announced . |
| 6 | Just 16 days ago a one-ton van bomb dumped at East London 's massive office development Canary Wharf also failed to explode although experts have been unable to find any fault . |
| 7 | Two days ago a red-spotted blue throat had thrilled . |
| 8 | ‘ Two days later a letter appeared in the Signal ( signed ‘ Fiat Justitia ’ ) suggesting that Denry , as some reward for his public spirit , ought to be the next mayor of Bursley . ’ |
| 9 | Two days later a figurehead president , Mr Johan Kraag , was sworn in with , as prime minister , Jules Wijdenbosch , leader of Mr Bouterse 's party ( which has only three seats in the 51-seat national assembly ) . |
| 10 | Some pleaded guilty while others were incriminated by the children 's evidence , and two days later a dozen were hanged before thousands on the hill overlooking Lancaster Castle . |
| 11 | Two days later a more decorous visitor called ; Lessing , from the publishing house . |
| 12 | TWO days later a burglar was shot dead outside their room at night . |
| 13 | On the following Tuesday he had tickets for the much-acclaimed Lear at the National , and then two days later a seat in the stalls for the revival of Turandot at the Coliseum . |
| 14 | Two days later a horse-and-cart pulled up in Page Street and an elderly man with a shock of ginger hair sticking out from both sides of his battered trilby stepped down and knocked at Aggie 's front door . |
| 15 | But the past could raise its head in other ways , he realized , when two days later a letter arrived with a London postmark , bringing him news of the most extraordinary nature . |
| 16 | Two days later a report in the Guardian implicated the West German engineering giant Mannesmann in the Belgian and Swiss operation . |
| 17 | Two days later a new political movement was formed joining the defunct PSU and the Nouvelle Gauche ( a dissident communist movement established at the time of the 1988 presidential elections and led by Pierre Juquin — see p. 35979 for his candidature ) . |
| 18 | The new parliament convened on Nov. 27 ; King Hussein appointed Mudar Badran as Prime Minister on Dec. 4 and two days later a new Cabinet was selected . |
| 19 | Two days later a bomb exploded in an SLA controlled village , killing the mayor . |
| 20 | Even more remarkably , two days later a requiem for Zita was held in St Matthew 's church in Budapest . |
| 21 | Two days earlier a CPKI meeting in Seoul proclaimed the establishment of the Korean People 's Republic ( KPR ) . |
| 22 | FOUR days ago a diminutive figure dressed in black called at the Yorkshire home of Allan and Barbara Bland , parents of the Hillsborough disaster victim , Tony Bland . |
| 23 | About four days later a similar child was admitted with identical symptoms of croup . |
| 24 | Four days later a different camera team were up at Ramsbottom to film a spectacular incident involving a car and a diesel locomotive , and all this happened right in the middle of the ELR 's ‘ all diesel weekend ’ . |
| 25 | Four days later a statement emanating from the State Department expressed confidence in General Hodge and affirmed the American objective in Korea as the attainment of a free , united , sovereign nation with a democratic form of government reflecting the will of the Korean people . |
| 26 | Four days later a pensioner , Robert Clarke , 65 , of Cunningham Street , Motherwell , was walking his dog in Strathclyde Park when he heard howling . |
| 27 | The diagnosis was complicated as four days earlier a 14 year old boy from the same school had collapsed and died after a short illness of severe diarrhoea , which proved to be due to a fatal Salmonella enteritidis infection . |
| 28 | Seven days later a Sea King mark 4 went down at 49o 43 'S , 5 1o 43'W . |