Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1.00:TOP weight BOLLIN WILLIAM bolted up by 10 lengths on his reappearance at Bangor eight days ago , and will be very hard to beat in this less competitive contest off just an 8lb higher mark . |
| 2 | Jerry , 36 , flew to her mother in Texas 12 days ago after spending two weeks at the couple 's Loire Valley chateau pondering her marriage problems . |
| 3 | The 31-year-old striker learned that UEFA had doubled the one-match suspension he received automatically after being sent off against Bruges 10 days ago . |
| 4 | A second meeting of the 24 , including the US , Japan , Canada and Australia , took place in Brussels 10 days ago . |
| 5 | But he was careful not to think , because some corner of his mind knew that that way lay a kind of death , of Hal in Chester , quite certainly notified , or soon to be notified , by Hotspur or another , of the long day 's work done at Homildon Hill six days ago . |
| 6 | She calls herself Elisa these days and she 's married to someone called Stasi . |
| 7 | It arrives , theoretically , in Vancouver three days , three hours and five minutes later , having crossed 2,887 miles of pine-wilderness , prairie and mountain . |
| 8 | Ali Kafi assumed the position of president of the High Committee of State ( HCS ) on July 2 , following the assassination of Mohammed Boudiaf three days earlier [ see also p. 38981 ] . |
| 9 | He arrived at Santa de Nogueira three days before the spirit warrior . |
| 10 | Equally enthusiastic was Pehr Kalm , who arrived at Kingsessing three days after he had reached Philadelphia in 1748 , also with a letter of introduction from Collinson . |
| 11 | I see a great deal of Edgar these days , you know . |
| 12 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |
| 13 | GOD KNOWS what they 're putting in the water in Seattle these days , but it 's got to be something pretty potent . |
| 14 | ‘ Does she mention David these days ? ’ asked Rachel curiously , looking out of the window at Jennifer sitting on the patio in her wheelchair talking to her father . |
| 15 | He was probably feeling the effects of that gruelling contest when a below-par third at Sandown three days later . |
| 16 | ON THE SATURDAY three days after the massacre , eight of the bodies were exposed in a hall of the University pavilion for the families and friends of the students . |
| 17 | NELSON MANDELA , president of the African National Congress , announced last night that he would attend today 's funeral of six children killed in an apparent ANC attack in Natal ten days ago . |
| 18 | Now , their main hopes rest on the striker Dariusz Dziekanowski , a deep disappointment to his countrymen when Poland lost to Gary Lineker 's hat-trick in Monterey in 1986 but lately revived by a transfer to Celtic , for whom he vainly scored four goals in that extraordinary roller-coaster of a European tie against Partizan Belgrade at Parkhead 13 days ago . |
| 19 | The inquiry will investigate the improved form of Thistle Monarch at Carlisle on 26 November , compared with his running at Ayr 13 days earlier . |
| 20 | And if there were only two thousand living souls in Famagusta several days ago , there would be fewer now who were both soldiers and active . |
| 21 | Not the Saturday two days time ? |
| 22 | Doyle voiced his criticisms at a board meeting in Stoke 10 days ago . |
| 23 | What would be the point of a single glider being towed to Normandy eleven days after the invasion and the establishment of a bridgehead for the landing of men and supplies ? |
| 24 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 25 | The combination snatched the spoils in the dying strides at Stratford 10 days ago , and further improvement is anticipated over this extra six furlongs . |
| 26 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 27 | In the north of England similar days were held . |
| 28 | Still , if there were villages in Ireland these days where a man might be in danger of meeting the same ill-fortune face to face , Owen feared he was getting near them . |
| 29 | He looks and sounds like a man who feels he can beat anyone in Ireland these days . |
| 30 | WORTH IT for the ‘ Relapsed Remix ’ alone , and proving that not everything coming out of Deutschland these days leans towards the industrial . |