Example sentences of "[art] few days before " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I first when I was first driving in the early 1970's you could park in the quarry car park any time you fancied except the few days before Christmas . |
| 2 | The congregation usually watched him with a perverse relish which he mistook for devout attention , but this Sunday afternoon there was palpably an added curiosity to see how well he managed to live down the shaming comedy he had enacted on horseback a few days before . |
| 3 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 4 | ( Actually , it was a triple because he had also just won the Canadian Open a few days before . ) |
| 5 | One of his worst experiences had been at Sunset just a few days before . |
| 6 | This led to a real Sunday morning 's devotion , singing new stanzas to the song I had started a few days before : ‘ Thank you for sore legs ; thank you for the pain ; I wan na thank you , Lord . |
| 7 | He did n't always win , and occasionally he came a cropper — just as he 'd done at Masons ' gates a few days before . |
| 8 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 9 | This preparatory work was practically complete at the outbreak of war and authority was given a few days before for completion . |
| 10 | A few days before , one of the male members of the group had bought two 50 lb boxes of dynamite from the New England Corporation of Keene , New Hampshire , for $50 . |
| 11 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 12 | A few days before , in an interview with The Economist , Ms Tyson had made precisely the same point . |
| 13 | Pages that had seemed worthless a few days before were now pored over , in the hope that they 'd yield some clue , encoded in the fanciful excesses of Chant 's idiosyncratic and ill-punctuated prose , that would lead him to some fresh comprehension of the times and their movers . |
| 14 | There had been severe westerly gales a few days before , and these skuas had probably been displaced off their normal migration routes by the storm . |
| 15 | The ISV programme supposedly kicked off last week despite a quiet little ruling handed down a few days before by MIPS ' new parent , Silicon Graphics Inc , that says RiscOS 5.1 , due in the fall , is the end of the line . |
| 16 | Macnab showed them a postcard , sent to him by Joyce from Berlin a few days before . |
| 17 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 18 | The programme concluded with a snatch of birdsong , a low trill , repeated several times before dwindling into silence ; this , the presenter announced , was the song of the dusky seaside sparrow , a species of which the last survivor had died a few days before in its aviary at Disney World in Florida . |
| 19 | The Office of Fair Trading 's report on the subject came out only a few days before , and Mr Blair introduced it . |
| 20 | She knew that he was not going to like her question , might well accuse her of all sorts of things , not least acting like a jealous wife instead of a woman on whom he had clapped eyes only a matter of a few days before . |
| 21 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 22 | With a grand gesture of deliberately deflated gallantry , Lucker pulls on his damp swimming costume which he has had breeding in a sour plastic bag since his last swim a few days before . |
| 23 | Menem , who had accepted Yoma 's resignation only a few days before , had been forced to suspend her from her post in March when a report by a Spanish investigative judge , hearing evidence in the Spanish capital , Madrid , accused her of being part of an international drug laundering ring . |
| 24 | As she lay down in bed and put out her light , she forced herself to recall the latest chapter , completed a few days before , and fell asleep mulling over the next . |
| 25 | The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before . |
| 26 | The shapechangers had left the planet only a few days before , having prepared the castle for their return . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Probably we did n't realise it would be a problem until a few days before , but why did n't the managers come to us and ask about it ? |
| 29 | So she I think she 's erm , she would n't want it done just a few days before anyway she 'd have |