Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] a few days before " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he had only been in his new job for a few days before the murder , Dave Pushell had already tried to imprint his personality on the office . |
| 2 | The resultant paste is cask-conditions for a few days before bottling . |
| 3 | After a short incubation period the fertilized eggs transform into medusa — tiny pear-shaped animals with rapidly beating hair-like cilia which are then released into the water and have a limited ability to swim and survive among the plankton for a few days before settling on the sea bed . |
| 4 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 5 | ( It was only a matter of a few days before a faster one appeared . ) |