Example sentences of "[art] few days ago " in BNC.
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| 1 | But John Bullock , senior partner at Deloitte UK , admitted that Touche Ross had only been informed of his decision not to merge with them ‘ a few days ago ’ . |
| 2 | It will be the first time that the Unita leader has met a British minister , and only a few days ago the Angolan ambassador in London was assured by a Foreign Office official that there were no plans for such a meeting . |
| 3 | This was confirmed only a few days ago when yet another visit to the garage became necessary , this time through no fault of the Metro 's . |
| 4 | He was called in here a few days ago , about an accident . ’ |
| 5 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 6 | A few days ago they were handed the Moscow black spot in the form of an invitation to reconsider history . |
| 7 | The chances of the man who was seen as a contender for the presidency until a few days ago , the former leader , Mr Alexander Dubcek , winning the post are now seen as receding . |
| 8 | A few days ago Li Xiannian , a former President , broke his public silence to support the controversial Three Gorges project to dam the Yangtze , but did not use the occasion to back faster reforms . |
| 9 | John Major made a perceptive observation a few days ago when he declared that he found many people to be cross , rather than angry , about the recession . |
| 10 | Yet , only a few days ago , Labour 's campaign seemed to be swinging to victory . |
| 11 | It must have been mailed a few days ago , with a second class stamp . |
| 12 | The second one shows it in the condition in which her parents found it when they went in there on that morning a few days ago ’ ( p. 156–7 ) . |
| 13 | The engine gave every satisfaction until a few days ago , when with an enormous bang , the crankshaft broke . |
| 14 | We both met Walter a few days ago . |
| 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 | Then , very quietly , she said : ‘ What a brave girl you are , Jenny , to cross by those stepping-stones after falling in from them only a few days ago . |
| 17 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 18 | A few days ago I received some news which I think should be shared with all Warwick Bass owners . |
| 19 | So a 20p increase would only put the cost back up to where it was a few days ago . |
| 20 | Just a few days ago the couple posted a Christmas present to their daughter which will arrive in South Africa in the next week . |
| 21 | A few days ago , when it had been snowing , I saw a group of Savoy cabbages standing frozen and benumbed , and it reminded me of a group of women in their thin petticoats and old shawls which I had seen standing in a little hot-water-and-coal shop early in the morning . ’ |
| 22 | The cottage is mine now , for mama told me — only a few days ago , it was — that it would be mine one day . |
| 23 | A few days ago I went warily — in broad daylight — down the steps to examine the cellar . |
| 24 | Just a few days ago I was foolish enough to allow my hopes to rise . |
| 25 | Until a few days ago she had n't even seen a submarine . |
| 26 | A few days ago I again removed the brood of one of these A. aluaudi females and counted a record 113 fry . |
| 27 | His prep crew had coptered in a few days ago , but it was psychologically important for the movement that the first arrivals turn up in the old way , like the Mormon pioneers who had first built by the Salt Lake and made the desert bloom . |
| 28 | A few days ago . ’ |
| 29 | On a Unix panel at the Etre conference in Vienna a few days ago , Microsoft vice president Steve Ballmer capped a loud , argumentative , personally unattractive defence of NT by admitting it was going to be ‘ hard to sell . ’ |
| 30 | A few days ago I had gotten ill and my legs still feel like thin stilts . |