Example sentences of "[vb past] a few days [adv] " 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 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 3 | A bottle of vintage champagne was cracked open , and a toast drunk to Virginia 's exam results received a few days earlier . |
| 4 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 5 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 6 | happened a few days ago |
| 7 | The first shipment arrived a few days ago and the stallholder got his stock on Friday evening . |
| 8 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 9 | The Saudi plant at Safaniya was closed as a precautionary measure on Feb. 8 , but reopened a few days later . |
| 10 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 11 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 12 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 13 | He returned a few days later a broken man . |
| 14 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |
| 15 | Gene landed a few days later and in July Joe went out with reinforcements . |
| 16 | It started a few days ago . |
| 17 | The one hundred and sixty strong Pioneers left R A F Brize Norton early this afternoon ; they 'll be joining Major Colin Code who went a few days ago . |
| 18 | When the Bohemian king , Wenceslas IV , heard of the revolt , he was seized by an epileptic fit and died a few days later . |
| 19 | In June 1183 , the Young King fell victim to a sudden attack of dysentery and died a few days later . |
| 20 | She died a few days later . |
| 21 | When he died a few days later Philip called off the invasion . |
| 22 | The stranger fell ill and died a few days later . |
| 23 | Mr James , a former University Scout , died a few days later . |
| 24 | There has been an encouraging response since the club advertised a few days ago . |
| 25 | As she lay down in bed and put out her light , she forced herself to recall the latest chapter , completed a few days before , and fell asleep mulling over the next . |
| 26 | ‘ We spoke a few days ago , ’ said the voice . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I sent a copy of the Minister 's letter to Mrs. X and she responded a few days later on 20 October . |
| 30 | They 'd had a , he had to give evidence he said , you know because , I mean he said a few days previously so they , financial problems as loaded as the family are nobody come to the rescue ! |