Example sentences of "a few days before [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The enumerator must deliver a schedule to the head of each household ( including caravans , tents , etc. ) in his or her district a few days before census day . |
| 2 | It may be possible to close the accounts a few days before completion and open separate bank accounts . |
| 3 | It is also good practice to ask your client to let you have the balance required ( if applicable ) a few days before completion , because you will need to clear the client 's cheque before you use the relevant monies represented by it . |
| 4 | The case is being heard just a few days before counter action aimed at holding up attempts to sell the house if they are forced to leave . |
| 5 | He left just a few days before Christmas in 1984 . |
| 6 | But money and the recession were forgotten as I skied in the brilliant sunshine of Obergurgl just a few days before Christmas . |
| 7 | A few days before Christmas , Eastman Kodak dumped Interactive Systems Corporation , the half that was left after SunSoft bought its piece a year ago , into the lap of the Ottawa-based integrator SHL Systemhouse Inc for an undisclosed amount of money . |
| 8 | A floundering DEC , now with six consecutive losing quarters blotting its once-sterling record , divided itself into nine strategic business units , as promised by its new president , a few days before Christmas . |
| 9 | A few days before Christmas 1286 , Edward I of England was in his duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 10 | A few days before Christmas her husband will discover her adultery in a manner I will subsequently reveal to you , and in a fit of jealous rage he will push some sharp , thin instrument , a pen , perhaps , or a knitting needle , or a personalised automatic cocktail stirrer purchased from Global Inventions Inc. by mail order , up her left nostril , not to kill or maim , but merely to inflict some pain as a small , desperate expression of his own ; pushing too far , however , he will accidentally pierce the brain . |
| 11 | Helen leaves for Chile at the end of September 1994 to help local projects in the country including an orphanage and other community projects and will not return to Britain until a few days before Christmas . |
| 12 | David started as a Tuner just a few days before Christmas in 1949 . |
| 13 | In 1987 perhaps the Prime Minister 's pre-election visit to Moscow and her eve-of-election trip to the Venice summit of Western leaders were favourable to her re-election , but ‘ Harold Wilson always asserted that a bad set of trade figures a few days before polling cost him an election , while the effect of being centre-stage during the Iran hostages affair may have been devastating to Jimmy Carter 's fortunes ’ . |