Example sentences of "a few day before [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only a few days before an ITV programme had been far from complimentary about some of the Salvation Army hostels . |
| 2 | I could n't blame him ; only a few days before an eminent surgeon had been badly mugged in the entrance to his Harley Street office in the middle of the afternoon . |
| 3 | A few days before the European Planning Committee was due to meet , Mueller decided to go for the jugular . |
| 4 | Near panic had set in when Tass news agency quoted a woman who had just arrived in Novgorod , near St Petersburg , as saying that she had fled Kyrgyzstan a few days before the ‘ evictions ’ were to begin . |
| 5 | I heard that she was widowed a few days before the baby was born . |
| 6 | But a few days before the squad was chosen , Rob Saunders , of London Irish , who had just changed jobs , informed Fitzgerald that he would have to change his mind and refuse the invitation . |
| 7 | ‘ IT MUST have been a big blow to the Dublin Theatre Festival ’ is not the thing to say to Tony O'Dalaigh who , as director of the festival must have imagined major profits blowing away as the Archaos tent took to the sky a few days before the French circus was due to perform . |
| 8 | In toads , for instance , the males sit on the backs of females for a few days before the female lays her eggs . |
| 9 | An opinion poll published a few days before the changes had indicated that support for the PCP had fallen to 19 per cent among the electorate , the party 's worst opinion survey result . |
| 10 | Just a few days before the festival begins , they 're adding the final touches to the stage . |
| 11 | William , who has been on invalidity benefit since the accident , accepted a settlement of £70,000 a few days before the case started . |