Example sentences of "[adv] day " in BNC.
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| 1 | His remarks , during his recent US tour , were shown only days after Pravda reprinted — and then apologised for — an Italian newspaper article accusing him of drunkenness and high-living during the trip . |
| 2 | But only days before Mr Sok Hay stood in front of his villa speculating on how much his property might be worth in the future , Khmer Rouge guerrillas had ambushed a Phnom Penh army patrol in the hills close by . |
| 3 | Normally , the reserve is set only days or hours before the auction , when the agents will already have a good indication of how much interest has been shown . |
| 4 | LORD ALDINGTON denied in the High Court yesterday that he was responsible for seeking permission from higher command to use force to repatriate unwilling Cossacks from Austria only days after General Dwight Eisenhower , Supreme Allied Commander , offered to arrange their peaceful evacuation in May 1945 . |
| 5 | ONLY days after the European Community summit agreed to convene a conference next year to change the EC constitution and prepare for monetary union , demands were raised by EC leaders yesterday for a second such conference to extend the powers of the European Parliament even further . |
| 6 | Elected last March only days after M-19 laid down its arms , the 312 members of Congress include just one representative of the movement . |
| 7 | White was an hours student due to take his college entrance exams in only days : a place at university was his constant consuming dream . |
| 8 | Only days ahead of a general election in Iran , Teheran has taken a strident and uncompromising stance against the Mujahideen Khalq opposition group and its patron , Iraq . |
| 9 | Their decision to precipitate a leadership contest only days after Labour 's fourth humiliating general election defeat threatened to plunge the party into a new bout of recrimination and in-fighting . |
| 10 | The relationship risked serious derailment over German unification , when Bonn failed to consult Paris before announcing its ten-point plan for unification only days after the dinner party summit at the Elysée Palace at which German unification had not been mentioned . |
| 11 | My own memory is vivid : it was a bitterly cold morning , below - 14° , and the ground I trod , in which only days before I would have been up to my knees in mud , was as solid as rock . |
| 12 | But only days after he took over the job , he 'd got the fright of his life . |
| 13 | Despite the fact that this guitar is only days old , the neck has a vintage feel to it , as though it has been active in the field for thirty years . |
| 14 | It was further established that Bacon had purchased some arsenic from a shop in Red Lion Square only days before , allegedly to kill rats . |
| 15 | Martin Sinclair , 38 , was mown down by a speedboat only days after arriving in Antigua . |
| 16 | Within minutes of Cantona signing for United last week , sources at Leeds revealed that he had twice asked for a move , and stormed out of Elland Road only days before his £1.2 million transfer . |
| 17 | But only days after his statement , and on a regular basis ever since , the newspapers had been full of holiday bargains and talk of overcapacity in an industry in which profit margins are already wafer thin . |
| 18 | Before Mr Morton 's operation at the world-renowned Papworth Hospital , near Cambridge , he was introduced to a man walking around the ward who had been given a new heart only days before . |
| 19 | The sharp-dressed singer , who 's at No. 37 with Me And Mrs Jones , spent more than £1,000 in stores during a recent visit to London — only days after a £2,000 clothes spree in New York . |
| 20 | The attack comes only days after school inspectors said they had ‘ little confidence ’ that proper GCSE standards were being maintained . |
| 21 | Only days to go and you 're sweating ? |
| 22 | He had fought too hard for too long to let this tour be abandoned only days from the test . |
| 23 | ‘ Jardin a Auvers ’ , a painting completed by Vincent van Gogh in July 1890 , only days before he killed himself , was bought at auction in Paris on 6 December for FFr55 million ( £6.5 million ; $10.5 million ) by French banker and businessman Jean-Marc Vernes . |
| 24 | Only days later news of a rights issue by British Airways was leaked to many newspapers . |
| 25 | It is only days since Spain was obliged to devalue the peseta ( which was not , as it happens , misaligned ) at great financial and political cost to its government . |
| 26 | The haste with which Adobe urged Sun to ink the contract — Ybarra says he was was collecting signatures late into the evening out at Sun 's Mountain View headquarters — is thought to have alienated Sun 's SunPics print division which apparently wanted no part of a deal that it had been told of only days beforehand ( UX No 405 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ The industry has caused the perception of Unix fragmentation itself , yet it takes only days or a week to port between an IBM and HP machine ’ . |
| 28 | A painting of a garden at Auvers-sur-Oise by Van Gogh , finished only days before he killed himself , will become the first historical monument to go under the hammer in France when it is sold at Drouot salerooms on 6 December by Paris auctioneer Maître Jean-Claude Binoche of the firm Binoche et Godeau . |
| 29 | Although the new term was only days old , the youngsters at Fowey Community School were soon in action supporting the local community . |
| 30 | Why , for example , should the same people who throng to welcome Jesus on his entry into Jerusalem clamour only days later for his death ? |