Example sentences of "a few days earlier " in BNC.
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1 | The championships ended with the Liberty Trophy final , when Cumbria added the county title to their fours success a few days earlier . |
2 | Only a few days earlier England had been knocked out of the World Cup by West Germany . |
3 | Bourke says that he then drove Blake to new accommodation that he had rented a few days earlier at Highlever Road in north Kensington . |
4 | It was Morgan 's handling of the attempted bank raid a few days earlier in Cardiff which turned the trick . |
5 | A few days earlier , the Army lost 5–1 to a touring Guernsey team in Bordon . |
6 | ‘ It is chilling to go among strangers , ’ he had written a few days earlier , ‘ & I leave a lovely country . ’ |
7 | From Shrewsbury a few days earlier he had already written to Tom Poole : |
8 | Ironically , a few days earlier , when Simonsen heard that the Scottish team were at the hotel , she had told a friend it was an ideal opportunity to brush up on her English . |
9 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | A few days earlier , a combined Army/Navy/ Youth team took on an F.A . |
12 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
13 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
14 | She had found it a few days earlier and feeling an immediate love for the place , determined to find time to sit there . |
15 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
16 | A few days earlier , the 40,000 miners of the Jiu Valley towns of Lupeni , Vulcan and Petrosani , in the foothills of the Carpathians two hundred and fifty miles to the north-west of Bucharest , had done the unimaginable in a communist state : they had gone on strike . |
17 | An elegance which was enjoyed only a few days earlier can now seem artificial , out of touch with the sense of self that has arisen . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | I had n't noticed this picture much while she was alive , but now she was dead it seemed as if her eyes sparkled with the same vitality that they had appeared to possess when I had seen her lying cold on her straw mattress a few days earlier . |
20 | A few days earlier , someone else had asked : ‘ Why do n't the Information Officers follow the MPs when they tour their constituencies ? ’ |
21 | Now it happened that a few days earlier Jones had called up Lee R. Phillips , an attorney associated with Brigham Young University , in order to file a patent arising from his muon-fusion work . |
22 | Over supper Gardiner and Foxe explained how a few days earlier Cardinal Campeggio , the Papal Legate had refused to take a decision on the King 's petition for a divorce from Queen Catherine of Aragon and had transferred the case to Rome . |
23 | A few days earlier , I remember asking him if he would collect the wines from the cellar for that evening 's function . |
24 | Fortunately , that was in harmony with the thoughts of the ITF Rules Committee which had also met at Key Biscayne a few days earlier and had thrown out the idea of one serve instead of two … or changing the dimensions of the court , such as a smaller service box or a serving line a yard behind the baseline , but agreed to make further research into rackets , balls and court surfaces . |
25 | It was a New England trawler , the Valhalla , based on Gloucester , Massachusetts , from which it had sailed a few days earlier . |
26 | He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier . |
27 | The cause of the tears was the arrival , a few days earlier , of a parcel at the busy Buckingham Palace office which she shared with Michael Colbourne , who was then in charge of the Prince 's finances , and several others . |
28 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
29 | The INF treaty , agreed at Washington the previous December , was formally signed by the two leaders on 1 June , following its ratification a few days earlier by the US Senate and by the USSR Supreme Soviet ( the first Soviet rockets were destroyed , to some publicity , in early August ) . |
30 | The grateful customer sent Tina a box of chocolates but only a few days earlier she had vowed not to eat any chocolates because of Lent . |