Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] a few days [adv] " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 The oilmen arrived in the Herefordshire hills a few days ago and they 've already started drilling .
2 Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier .
3 His remarks reflected the general alteration in TANU policy which was to be embodied in the Arusha Declaration a few days later .
4 The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before .
5 Liddell graduated from Edinburgh University a few days later ( 17 July ) , and enrolled at the Scottish Congregational College in Edinburgh to read divinity for a year , for he had long since decided to devote his life to missionary work , like his parents .
6 Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later .
7 Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great .
8 I met Paul Fabian a few days later — a small , bird-like man , quite bald , dressed in a white safari suit and a Panama , and in a perpetual state of fuss about ‘ sending telegrams to London ’ .
9 The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later .
  Next page