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

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1 A few days ago a farmer from Mt Darwin , the ‘ operational area ’ , came to in lunch .
2 A few days ago a woman woke up just as she was about to be stuffed with the previous day 's New York Post and varnished with embalming fluid by an undertaker .
3 Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin .
4 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 .
5 It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’
6 It 's a sad day when a trade union delegate and a member of the Labour Party ca n't pass an opinion . ’
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