Example sentences of "in [noun prp] a few day " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 4 | He did not yet know , as we know now thanks to the cuneiform tablet B.M. 35603 , that Antiochus IV had died in Persia a few days or weeks before the probable date of the reconsecration of the Temple ( A. I. Sachs and D. J. Wiseman , Iraq 16 ( 1954 ) , 212 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ The one which detonated at Lisnaskea in my constituency just a few days ago was one of many stolen in Dublin a few days previously , ’ said Mr Maginnis . |
| 7 | On a Unix panel at the Etre conference in Vienna a few days ago , Microsoft vice president Steve Ballmer capped a loud , argumentative , personally unattractive defence of NT by admitting it was going to be ‘ hard to sell . ’ |
| 8 | He looked from the overcoat to the grimy , torn green flannels and the scuffed brown shoes laced with uneven lengths of string , then felt in his pocket for the cigarettes he had bummed off a group of Swedish students in Bonn a few days earlier . |