Example sentences of "[art] few days before the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , the invitation came only a few days before the weekend fixed for the competition , giving the Ayrshire team no time at all to train . |
| 2 | Summoned to collect a donation from an address on the east side of the city , a few days before the Election , I noticed a poster in the window , and realised that it was the home of a candidate ( now the Member ) for Leith . |
| 3 | After these reconnaissances during October , a final reconnaissance was made a few days before the invasion , by the teams going inshore one night so that each navigator could show the paddlers their canoes ' positions as navigational marks guiding in the assault waves on D-day . |
| 4 | These comments , coming from the NRA 's senior scientist a few days before the Government 's Green Bill is due to be published , add more problems to the rough passage already faced by the legislation . |
| 5 | Under commitment accounting , the manager could simply issue orders a few days before the year-end to ‘ fill up ’ the budget . |
| 6 | His mother 's claims come just a few days before the publication of a report into the case of seven mental patients , who died after they were discharged from hospital . |
| 7 | Nutty received the guff about the competition a few days before the date . |
| 8 | Dr Pirnia came to the palace a few days before the departure to say goodbye to the Queen . |
| 9 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
| 10 | A few days before the poll , an attempt was made to interest The Guardian in a story that Harold Wilson was involved in land speculation . |
| 11 | on collecting my T-shirt and participants instructions a few days before the event , I was rather alarmed to discover that we were expected to meet at Alexander Stadium at 7.45 a.m. on the Sunday morning , a time that I did n't really know existed even before my maternity leave ! |
| 12 | A few days before the vote on partition in the UN General Assembly , Abdallah secretly met Jewish Agency officials . |
| 13 | Men from the SAS and Delta Force infiltrated a number of towns and cities during the war , and Saddam Hussein himself told several of his visitors that the SIS ( or M16 , as it is often called ) had sent in three Pakistani agents to attend the Islamic conference which Iraq summoned a few days before the UN deadline . |
| 14 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 15 | A few days before the outbreak of war , instructions had been received to prepare and assemble the ambulance trains . |
| 16 | The timing of Nguyen 's visit was regarded as significant by some commentators , coming a few days before the arrival in Moscow of the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party , Jiang Zemin [ see p. 38189 ] . |
| 17 | In Britain , popular and media objections to the State paying for all the repairs to the fabric of Windsor castle , severely damaged by fire only a few days before the Hofburg , continued into December . |
| 18 | My term had ended a few days before the start of Crispin 's leave , so we had agreed to travel up separately , and meet on Moila itself . |
| 19 | The most poignant lesson , which proved to be the last , was held a few days before the wedding . |
| 20 | A few days before the wedding . |
| 21 | Returned ‘ without any seeking or soliciting ’ on his part to Richard Cromwell 's Parliament in 1659 for Castle Rising , again on a double return , he was allowed to sit but was inactive until the election was overturned a few days before the dissolution in April . |
| 22 | Just a few days before the launch the original pilot , Ken Mattingy , had been exposed to German measles and was found to have no immunity , He was replaced by his backup , Jack Swigert , who managed just two days prime-crew training before leaving for the Moon ! |
| 23 | Norway and Sweden announced on Aug. 6 that they would not contribute to an appeal for assistance to relieve the effects of the drought , in protest at the purchase a few days before the launch of the appeal of a US$29,000,000 presidential aircraft . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 26 | I saw him in hospital a few days before the end . |
| 27 | On Dec. 14 , a few days before the end of the fourth CFE round , the two sides presented their separate draft treaty texts . |
| 28 | A few days before the hearing of the father 's application , the local authority informed his solicitors that they would not be opposing the application . |