Example sentences of "few days of [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last few days of her life Julia lay in a drugged sleep , free from pain and still managing a faint smile for Pat as he hung over her , gripping her hand . |
| 2 | Their crowded funerals have been dignified by ceremony proper to their public status and success , but few personal tributes were more poignantly expressed than by the posies of primroses picked by children of the unemployed at the Docklands settlement where Mrs Melville Wills had worked to within a few days of her death at the age of 73 in 1936 . |
| 3 | To condemn the child in the first few days of its life , and engineer its death can only be a gross misjustice . |
| 4 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 5 | Should not the Government , in the last few days of their existence , bring to bear upon the Iranian Government the utter condemnation that is felt by the people of the United Kingdom for the disgraceful action in imposing a death threat on a British citizen in the capital of the United Kingdom ? |
| 6 | Again she went over the first few days of their itinerary in her mind . |
| 7 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 8 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 9 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 10 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 11 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 12 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 13 | Will the Minister give a guarantee in the last few days of his Government that none of those elderly people will have their home repossessed ? |
| 14 | So , for the first few days of his visit , Edouard explored the city alone , except for the servant . |
| 15 | Within a few days of his visit you receive details of two sous-chefs , both well versed in haute cuisine , both having trained with chefs of international repute , and both now ready to manage their own kitchen . |
| 16 | Those first few days of my adventure were very sad , partly because of the temptation to identify with the pain present in the refuge . |
| 17 | I obviously made some fundamental mistakes within the first few days of my move . |
| 18 | There should have been plenty of time for all the work we planned , but what with all the delays of getting the assay going in an unfamiliar lab , as well as making a quick canter round a dozen or so Australian campuses to give seminars , it was n't until almost the last few days of my visit , during a long car journey through the outback to attend a biochemistry congress at Brisbane , that I managed to decode and assemble all the data . |