Example sentences of "a [adj] days before [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | A few days before discharge is expected , any services required are arranged and any drugs , dressings and appliances ( e.g. Mr Reynolds ' stoma equipment ) are ordered . |
2 | Neither had the House Government Operations sub-committee in Washington which , a few days before Coleman was publicly denounced in a CNN broadcast , opened hearings into allegations that the DEA was involved in the fate of Flight 103 . |
3 | But a few days before Khrushchev was summoned back to Moscow from the Black Sea for his political execution , Mr Voronov received an unexpected invitation to go hunting with Brezhnev . |
4 | A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset . |
5 | Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow . |
6 | A few days before Michael came home , our daughter-in-law Pippa came to stay for a few days , bringing Emily , who was to go to a boarding-school in Yorkshire . |
7 | On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat . |