Example sentences of "[noun] a few days [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 4 | Mrs Pearson , the nice old lady who sold Belle Vue Cottage to me , set the controls a few days before she left and said the milkman understood how it worked and he would help me if I had need of it . |
| 5 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 6 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |