Example sentences of "[art] few days [conj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 During the few days before Blundy came across to Belfast , Paisley contacted a legal friend who in turn suggested to Vincent Browne of the Sunday Independent , a Dublin newspaper , that he examine the Black case .
2 In the few days that Blake had known the Doctor , he had never seen him fall asleep .
3 The first is that initial support of 60% is not high if the policy turns sour — if , for example , a war lasted more than the few days or weeks that Mr Bush seems to think it will take .
4 The American cruised the Solent for a few days while Mark was tying up the loose ends , and returned to the States without paying another visit to his office .
5 There may then be a break of a few days while participants work to devise a training session .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 A few days before Monica died , they stood together by the open window , looking towards the sunset .
10 Mr Baker 's comments came , however , a few days before Mr Greenspan starts a four-day visit to Moscow .
11 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 .
12 On it , messages left over from a few days before Brian gave up the flat .
13 The Captain and his wife proved so hospitable that Ricky stayed on for a few days after Minton left to stay with Paul ( ‘ Odo ’ ) Cross and Angus Wilson at their home Rio Chico at Ocho Rios .
14 He died a few days after peace had been declared .
15 They had met a few days after Mina had stood up at the end of a recital in the Usher Hall at Edinburgh to announce that she would very much like to stay here in England ( a tiny mistake the Scots reporters had kindly ignored ) rather than return to East Germany .
16 Valerie Place was killed just a few days after Oxfam workers had visited the area .
17 He was due in the Wing a few days after Dickie started in his new school , in just over three weeks ' time .
18 She died of cancer just a few days after Samuel George was born .
19 A few days after Mr Hani 's murder , while riots swept the country , he and four comrades met secretly to form a ‘ Committee of Generals ’ whose aim would be to resist majority rule .
20 When this came to light we insisted for a few days that employees should seek permission to leave the company premises .
21 Three weeks earlier they had flown out to Rome where they had been able to spend a few days as guests of the staff and students at the Venerable English College before setting out from St Peter 's Square on Wednesday , 30th September to cycle more than 1,700 miles across Italy , Switzerland and France , then up through England .
22 Better to hold on to power for a few days or hours longer .
23 a combine , which only works for a few days or weeks in the year is far too costly for a smallholder , who must either rely on a contractor or work with simpler equipment .
24 Many widows like to stay in the home of a family member for a few days or weeks afterwards , but if she is going to return to her own home at some time , this should not be delayed for too long .
25 So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease .
26 Most of these minor illnesses last only a few days or weeks : what are needed , therefore , are the measures quality of life days or quality of life weeks .
27 All are strongly seasonal , with activity limited to a few days or weeks in summer .
28 More characteristic still are the thousands of tiny meltwater streams that trickle from ice-sheets and snow-banks for a few days or weeks each summer , often following the same channels year after year , and sometimes building up mats of vegetation along their course .
29 He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) .
30 Inventories were normally taken within a few days or weeks of the testator 's death .
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