Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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1 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
2 | Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements . |
3 | Holomisa had a few days earlier claimed to have knowledge of a planned coup attempt against him , stating that members of the neo-Nazi Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging ( AWB ) were involved in guerrilla training on South African territory near the Transkei border . |
4 | Harry Maylie waited a few days , then , as his mother had expected , he asked Rose to marry him . |
5 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Sarah had a few days ' leave while Joe was home and Maureen suggested , while Anne and her father were present , that Joe took Sarah out sometimes . |