Example sentences of "[noun] a few days [conj] [pers pn] " 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 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 5 | 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 . |