Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the later additions came a namesake , James Hall , who had started off the war as a private in Kitchener 's ‘ First Hundred Thousand ’ It was in the Lafayette that Hall , a flyer with almost superhuman luck ( he once came down intact with an unexploded AA shell sticking out of his engine ) , founded the literary partnership with another pilot , Charles Nordhoff , that was to produce ‘ Mutiny on the Bounty ’ Joining the Squadron a few days after its inception was Raoul Lufbery , who , like Bert Hall , had also been a professional flyer before the war . |
| 2 | Her friend 's well-known bluntness had been to the fore a few days ago , when she 'd discovered Laura sobbing quietly in her bedroom . |
| 3 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 4 | It showed again on a second test-firing on 25 January and was finally traced to the manifold a few days later . |
| 5 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 6 | They had thus sighted the continent a few days later than Bellingshausen 's sighting in longitude 2°15' W. Bransfield 's manuscript chart is in the hydrographic department of the Admiralty . |
| 7 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 8 | He was due in the Wing a few days after Dickie started in his new school , in just over three weeks ' time . |
| 9 | ‘ We spoke on the phone a few days ago . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 11 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 12 | In a similar fog-related accident in the capital a few days later , the Tourism and Information Minister , Pedro Zambrano , was killed on Dec. 21 . |
| 13 | If you ignore the ‘ whisper ’ of the blocked sink , you might switch on the radio a few days later , and immediately hear of a severe traffic jam in the Dartford Tunnel . |
| 14 | The solution sometimes adopted is to send the article to the Attorney-General a few days prior to its intended publication . |
| 15 | There was a short lull following this exchange , and then the door opened and in stepped the young man who had bought the mice and the toffee a few days ago . |
| 16 | I will certainly reiterate fully the message that I delivered when I visited the north-west a few days ago . |
| 17 | These were faithfully reported in the press a few days later so that readers knew the position of every member of the Cabinet . |
| 18 | The supermarkets get paid cash by the customer a few days after the goods arrive in their shops , while they pay their suppliers between one and two months after delivery . |
| 19 | We came to the chute a few days later . |
| 20 | Dr Pirnia came to the palace a few days before the departure to say goodbye to the Queen . |
| 21 | If you do need your ears syringing , however , it 's a good idea to use olive oil to soften the wax a few days beforehand . |
| 22 | Elizabeth Cheng looks at the space where her mantlepiece clock used to be … it was stolen in a burglary a few days ago . |
| 23 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 24 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 25 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 26 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 27 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |