Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] a few days " in BNC.

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1 It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier .
2 Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier .
3 Muge , who had accused government members of being involved in Ouko 's murder , had been threatened by Labour Minister Peter Okondo a few days before his death ; Okondo later resigned from the government .
4 Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 .
5 It took Greg Farrel a few days to realise he was being vetted , both socially and professionally .
6 Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later .
7 But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before .
8 Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great .
9 I met Paul Fabian a few days later — a small , bird-like man , quite bald , dressed in a white safari suit and a Panama , and in a perpetual state of fuss about ‘ sending telegrams to London ’ .
10 The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later .
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