Example sentences of "[art] [adj] day [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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31 A few days later a group of nobles keen to impress Aurangzeb broke into the quarters where Dara was being kept , a small garden outside the walls of Shahjehanabad towards Nizamuddin .
32 So , Bob gets the person who recommended him to recommend me , and a few days later the ticket , and the rule book , arrives :
33 A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began .
34 A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight .
35 A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt .
36 A few days later the call came for general mobilisation .
37 If a few days later the salesman 's firm sends the customer a letter accepting the customer 's offer , the contract is made , not during the visit , but a few days later .
38 A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper .
39 A few days later the sheep-shearing began .
40 A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister .
41 A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job .
42 A few days later the dealer would ring and persuade his client to invest in another stock , on the grounds that for making money a portfolio of several shares was needed .
43 A few days later the father told a project worker , ‘ You know that was the first time I felt I had something to offer to the school . ’
44 A few days later an Englishman had spoken to him on the phone , saying an envelope of pictures Manningham might find interesting were on the way by express registered post .
45 It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’
46 It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’
47 ‘ It will be a sad day when the camera replaces the umpire , ’ Bucknor said in response to the criticism .
48 John Parke writes It was a sad day when the news came some two years ago that Ann Hoare was suffering from cancer and that she had taken early retirement from her post as assistant manager of Exeter University Bookshop , where she had been on the staff since it opened .
49 Shoreditch wishes Mr Love good luck over any polling card litigation ; but surely it 's a sad day when the suggestion that a socialist opposes mass slaughter is thought to be libellous ?
50 Interviewers can not be sure of people 's age or social class before an interview is begun and so one can see the temptation of putting a woman down as under 35 if that is just what you need at the end of a hard day when the woman turns out in fact to be 38 .
51 It was a lovely day when the train steamed into Euston , back where I started from , and there at the ticket barrier J. was waiting , as arranged , and I did n't have to salute anyone any more .
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