Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [noun] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turner from St Michael 's Mission to the Blind , who had been attacked by dacoits a few days earlier and left for dead a few miles out of Shwebo . |
| 2 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 3 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 5 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
| 6 | This condition is more aptly termed pre-menstrual syndrome ( PMS ) because tension is just one of a number of other emotional and physical disturbances experienced by women a few days ( or two weeks ) before the onset of menstruation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Dana went on with his friend to see her off at Le Havre , while I made my way to London , where I was joined by Dana a few days later . |