Example sentences of "[noun] a few days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paris could hardly believe its ears a few days later when Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau entered the Salle Pleyel , exactly 40 years after his Parisian début , to sing Die Schöne Müllerin with ( once past the buffeted consonants and fatal eruptions of ‘ Das Wandern ’ ) a mezza voce intact , and a sensitive response to the warmhearted suggesting from the piano of Christoph Eschenbach , that one could hardly believe possible ( and more astounding still in that immense hall ! ) . |
| 2 | They had thus sighted the continent a few days later than Bellingshausen 's sighting in longitude 2°15' W. Bransfield 's manuscript chart is in the hydrographic department of the Admiralty . |
| 3 | At his lunch break a few days later Mr Wolski took his sandwiches and sat on the benches opposite the eagle and looked at her . |
| 4 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 5 | She 'd hired a car a few days before , with the trip to the clinic in view . |
| 6 | Miss Maynard herself echoed Brian 's words a few days later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Shatila finally collapsed on 27 June 1988 , followed by Bourj el-Brajneh a few days later . |
| 10 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 11 | As it happened I had heard a very similar point being put to a group of Belfast managers from top insurance companies a few days previously . |
| 12 | Apparently he was involved in an accident at work a few days ago , went to his local casualty department who could n't actually detect any break and treated it as a severe sprain . ’ |
| 13 | What she did n't know , of course , was that I finished my work a few days ahead of that schedule , and was not here when you — in the guise of your sister , ’ he inserted gently , ‘ arrived . ’ |
| 14 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 15 | The Bewicks landed at Slimbridge a few days ago after their two thousand mile flight from Siberia . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He was last seen in England a few days before he was due to attend an important conference in Italy . |
| 18 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 19 | For the last month he has relished driving through the cold and the foggy damp from his Nottingham home to the Headingley indoor nets a few days a week for practice with the rest of the England team . |
| 20 | 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 " . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The King complained about the singing of the ‘ Red Flag ’ and the ‘ Marseillaise ’ at the Labour Party meeting in the Albert Hall a few days before . |
| 23 | Ben and Mrs Robinson arrange an assignation a few days later at the swanky Taft Hotel , where , after initial naivety and clumsiness almost make the occasion a farcical disaster , they end up satisfactorily in bed with one another . |
| 24 | 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 ’ . |
| 25 | His hopes of a memorable 100th Test appearance lay in ruins a few days later . |
| 26 | After Diana 's marriage to Charles , her father , Earl Spencer , always created a festival of fun for his grandchildren a few days early . |
| 27 | The final moult occurs in the bronchioles a few days later and the young adults then move up the bronchi and mature . |
| 28 | That Jesus 's entry into Jerusalem was fraught with political implications becomes evident in the Gospels a few days later . |
| 29 | In three of the six subjects ( responders ) methane excretion showed a pronounced fall a few days after SO 4 was added to the diet , so that by 10 days with added sulphate methane concentration was less than 2 ppm in all samples measured in these three subjects . |
| 30 | At home a few days later , she was pointing excitedly to a top shelf . |