Example sentences of "be [art] few days [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Sometimes , people in ancient places , in flashes of paranormal imagination , see once again the Forum in Pompeii as it must have been a few days before Mount Etna 's eruption ; or — was it Freud 's or Jung 's story ? — musicians in a Rhenish Schloss , playing clavichords for a duke and his family . |
2 | Fish normally seek out the warmer shallows , and if there are a few days of sunshine before opening day then you will know where to choose on the bank . |
3 | Usually , it is preferable if there are a few days of further careful assessment of the patient before such steps are taken . |
4 | Goebbels instructed German press representatives on 19 October that ‘ it would still be a few days before the fall of Stalingrad ’ and recommended caution in reporting . |
5 | It 'll be a few days before the 70 year old grand dame of the railways moves under her own steam , first there are boiler inspections and checks to prove she can clear every bridge on the Toddington track . |
6 | As we were a few days behind schedule by this time I decided to press on while the weather held and the following morning saw us off Montrose with an ominous early shipping forecast of a southerly gale . |
7 | This should be resisted by the tenant as not only will the term be slightly diminished ( by almost three months where , for instance , the certificate date is a few days before a quarter day ) which could be relevant for a comparatively short term lease , but also the first and subsequent rent review dates will be that much sooner , which at a rent of , say , £100,000 per year , increasing to £140,000 per year ( in an inflationary market ) on the first rent review , would add £10,000 per quarter to the rent . |
8 | It was a few days before Michael Ramsey first became an undergraduate at his college . |
9 | But it was a few days before my birthday , and he has always remembered my birthday . |