Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adj] days [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stablemate Nijmegen nearly made it a double when beating all but the shock winner , Tomahawk , in the £22,500 Bic Lanzarote Hurdle at Kempton Park eight days later . |
| 2 | SILLARS STALKER * , who was winning for the first time on the Flat when landing an apprentice handicap at Hamilton Park eight days ago , should make a successful return to the Scottish track in today 's Levy Board Handicap ( 5.15 ) . |
| 3 | What has upset Brian is the knowledge that within hours of Joanna disappearing from the leisure centre car park eight days ago , he was being ‘ fingered ’ as someone who could have been responsible for kidnapping her . |
| 4 | She was stabbed at York University 12 days ago , after arriving to teach English to Open University students . |
| 5 | Unlike his counterpart Jim McCorry , he was able to announce his side some days ago — a side that showed just one change from Sunday , Paddy McGuinness coming into midfield for banned John Reihill . |
| 6 | He reads : Home was very far from Toad 's mind some days later . |
| 7 | The law itself will take over from the emergency anti-strike provisions voted through amid no little confusion six days ago . |
| 8 | Armand Gallo , a general practitioner and local councillor , was charged on Jan. 26 , 1990 , with organizing the murder 10 days earlier of Jean-Jacques Peschard , 59 , the socialist mayor of Marseilles ' seventh district . |
| 9 | Her partially-clothed body was found in a pool of blood three days later by her finance , Anthony Wesson , 25 , at her home in Tewkesbury Walk , Newport , Gwent , Cardiff Crown Court was told . |
| 10 | It has now to be adopted by the Council of Ministers to bring automatically into force three days later the Regulation of the Export of Cultural Goods to outside the European Community . |
| 11 | Eventually his complaints were taken seriously , and the first-aid training module was put into practice three days ahead of schedule . |
| 12 | You can take action 80 days sooner and before the situation has had too much chance to worsen . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's all very well you saying that , but do you realise that Micky only saw the script ten days ago ? |
| 14 | They let me out for the day and then , when he regained consciousness five days later , they let me out again to see him . |
| 15 | Toby , a 10-year-old chestnut thoroughbred who has won around 100 races , disappeared in a Shergar-style abduction nine days ago . |
| 16 | The victims are thought to have been killed with a hammer several days ago . |
| 17 | They usually can ; but they do n't do very well in the marathon four days later ! |
| 18 | Professor Cecilio Simon , a Black Panamanian and Dean of the school of Public Administration at the University of Panama , said the US action in Curundu may have been linked to a 5,000 strong demonstration two days earlier by people protesting the destruction of their homes . |
| 19 | Such language is infinitely more virulent that anything emanating from the Soviet foreign ministry after the deal four days ago between Bonn and East Berlin , which allowed some some 5,000 East Germans who had taken shelter in the two embassies to leave unmolested for the West . |
| 20 | CORONATION Street star Lynne Perrie was said to be improving in the hospital where she is undergoing tests following her collapse two days ago . |
| 21 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 22 | The statement came in response to Dragon 's broadside two days ago at Drayton Asia 's ‘ disappointing ’ investment performance . |
| 23 | were arrested on 17 July in connection with a parcel bomb which exploded in the Syriam state oil refinery 10 days earlier and killed two people . |
| 24 | And it was at the trekkers ' hut eight days before that we 'd met our porters with their dzos , Dzos — pronounced ‘ Joes ’ — are great hairy pack animals , a cross between yaks and cows . |
| 25 | Richard Miles ' body was discovered by his mother in the back garden of their home eight days ago . |
| 26 | Having finished loading , Ram stopped to scratch the back of his head , which was rather itchy , and then his elbow , which had been bitten by a mosquito some days earlier but which still itched occasionally . |
| 27 | The women 's eight , who won their Head of the Float race this season , challenge in the women 's regatta starting on June 20 , while the men 's eight start their campaign 10 days later . |
| 28 | They 've known it since the ball was confiscated and changed at Lamb 's insistence six days ago . |
| 29 | The delivery of Ann 's child six days later was not nearly so easy . |
| 30 | ‘ He 's a selfish little swine who behaved appallingly at Catterick , ’ was her assessment of Quick Reaction 's display in a Hunter Chase three days earlier , ‘ so I ran him here as a punishment ! ’ |