Example sentences of "[art] [adj] day [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men and women ( eleven in all ) who met here and talked for a few hours and went their unremarkable ways , were the descendants of the impassioned few Roxborough had gathered around him in the dark days following the failure of the Reconciliation . |
| 2 | The previous day also the factory was evacuated after a bomb scare . |
| 3 | His and my granny 's stories and memories centred round the struggles they had come through , especially the terrible days following the collapse of the General Strike in 1926 when the miners stayed out for many months . |
| 4 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 5 | So , Bob gets the person who recommended him to recommend me , and a few days later the ticket , and the rule book , arrives : |
| 6 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |
| 7 | ‘ A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight . |
| 8 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
| 9 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A few days later the sheep-shearing began . |
| 13 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |