Example sentences of "[noun prp] a [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately she had an order for a full-length wool coat and dress , and worked in happy isolation in the small room at the back of the shop , her mind lingering on the implication of Penry 's invitation as her fingers flew independently to finish the order for a customer due to return to the States a few days later . |
| 2 | Dana went on with his friend to see her off at Le Havre , while I made my way to London , where I was joined by Dana a few days later . |
| 3 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 4 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 5 | As Mr Cardinal had indicated , M. Dupont had not arrived in a good temper ; I can not recall now all the various things that had upset him since his arrival in England a few days previously , but in particular he had obtained some painful sores on his feet while sightseeing around London and these , he feared , were growing septic . |
| 6 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 7 | When Swift returned to Worcester a few days later , he was greeted with the ringing of bells , illuminations and bonfires , at many of which could be heard the tune of " The King shall have his own again " . |
| 8 | THE Queen Mother has pulled out of a public engagement for tomorrow and will remain in Scotland a few days longer after her hospital stay . |
| 9 | Only wallpaper for the whitewashed parlour seemed , at least in Cottle 's opinion , to be lacking , and he accordingly sent an upholsterer down to Clevedon a few days later to paste up some ‘ sprightly paper ’ . |
| 10 | Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 . |
| 11 | Anselm reached Dover on 23 September and met Henry I at Salisbury a few days later . |
| 12 | Tareq Aziz travelled to Moscow a few days later , perhaps with the aim of clearing the air where he encountered the Soviet leader Gorbachev . |
| 13 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
| 14 | From Shrewsbury a few days earlier he had already written to Tom Poole : |
| 15 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 16 | I should have known that Jean-Claude would wish to return to Paris a few days prior to the anniversary of Montaine 's death , a date embossed not only on his and Mme Guérigny 's mind but on my own . |
| 17 | More to the point , the affair earned Owen a few days ' breathing space . |
| 18 | Broussonet had also suggested he should put forward proposals for the creation of a veterinary school in England , an idea possibly prompted by the visit to the Alfort school of Arthur Young a few days earlier . |
| 19 | Components that were made in and shipped from Malaysia a few days earlier are then shipped back ’ . |
| 20 | Do n't laugh , but I had a dream that Leeds beat Sunderland 7–0 in the return of the CCC a few days ago . |
| 21 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 22 | It took Greg Farrel a few days to realise he was being vetted , both socially and professionally . |
| 23 | Indeed , he was talking at the time about the possibility of him returning to Europe a few days later with Sampras for the Davis Cup final . |
| 24 | He made his way to Bute a few days later . |
| 25 | The Security Council session was adjourned on May 26 , but reopened in New York a few days later . |
| 26 | I met Paul Fabian a few days later — a small , bird-like man , quite bald , dressed in a white safari suit and a Panama , and in a perpetual state of fuss about ‘ sending telegrams to London ’ . |
| 27 | Tony Visconti : ‘ I heard the finished version of ‘ Space Oddity that David had recorded with Gus Dudgeon a few days later and it was great . |
| 28 | Certainly , Jacques passed on Green 's approbation of Barker 's attitude to Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith a few days after the late February meeting : |
| 29 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 30 | Both speakers gave papers on the employment of women in printing , and such local interest was aroused that they were asked to repeat their lectures in Edinburgh a few days later . |