Example sentences of "a few days [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 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 | Within a few days of its unveiling Achilles was modestly kitted out with a fig leaf . |
| 4 | The money will be deducted from your current account within a few days of your purchase — just like a cheque , but so much easier . |
| 5 | I do n't know when the first visit was , but it must have been very recent , possibly within a few days of your , er , release . ’ |
| 6 | When it came to within a few days of my scheduled departure date , I said to Michael , ‘ I suppose it 's too late now . ’ |
| 7 | Within a few days of his election , Barbarossa was crowned on the 9th March 1152 . |
| 8 | Justification for Scott 's impressive display in the House of Commons became apparent within a few days of his drawings being hung . |
| 9 | Within a few days of his election he already knew that the way to realize this ‘ new Pentecost ’ was an Ecumenical Council . |
| 10 | So within a few days of his grudging acceptance by his parliamentary colleagues , Law 's leadership was ratified by the throng of party notables at Leeds ; here he received a reception more typical of what was to come in the future . |
| 11 | And within a few days of his return from the United States , he wrote to me on 4 August to the Kensington Mews flat : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So saying , when my wife Catherine died of cancer , Anthea sent me persistent invitations to spend a few days at her cottage , or even just come for a meal . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the end of the German campaign in Yugoslavia and Greece meant that many of the Luftwaffe units employed there were now being posted elsewhere , some of these stopping off in Sicily for a few days on their way back to Germany and undertaking a few missions over Malta . |
| 15 | They will spend a few days with their hosts in the classroom , before going on a camping trip in the Dutch countryside . |
| 16 | His raw material consists of Stephen Fry playing Stephen Fry thinly disguised as a throw-back aristo who decides to share his recently inherited stately pile for a few days with his old friends from revue days . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'll be back in a few days with your orders . ’ |
| 18 | I 'll expect you at the Presbytery in a few days with your donation . ’ |
| 19 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 20 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 21 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 22 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
| 23 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 24 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 25 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 26 | A few days after his thirteenth birthday , Tony left school too . |
| 27 | A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience . |
| 28 | The freedom , has , of course , been criticised — especially after the ferocious attack on Lord Goddard made by Mr Bernard Levin in " The Times " a few days after his death . |
| 29 | A few days before her arrival , I went with two friends to the Royal Palace , dressed up as the Three Musketeers . |
| 30 | A few days before her fortieth birthday she received her farewell orders . |