Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jones was the unsung hero behind Wycombe 's thrilling comeback from 2-0 down against Ossie Ardiles ' side at Adams Park nine days ago . |
| 2 | After Andy Payton 's failure against Plymouth Argyle ten days ago , stand-in skipper Phillips took responsibility for the spot kick and calmly sent Paul Reece the wrong way for his third goal of the season . |
| 3 | It 's J 's birthday on April 2nd & they are having a party ( at last ! ) so I 'll catch up on the news then — they are v. seldom at Gayfield St these days , so I never see them . |
| 4 | SCOTLAND 'S squad will be let loose at the wedding of their truculent ex-colleague Mo Johnston four days before the vital World Cup qualifier against Italy at Ibrox . |
| 5 | It was a re-run of events before the Polehill release eight days ago . |
| 6 | Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years . |
| 7 | Is nobody minding the shop at IBM Corp these days ? |
| 8 | It all seemed so clear when he appeared on the Frost programme two days before the Leader of the Opposition 's visit to Luigi 's restaurant . |
| 9 | Cray is finding it harder and harder to grow its monolithic supercomputers as the world edges towards parallel systems with the view that they will be able to take over many of the tasks presently handled by today 's vector processors , and you ca n't enter an IBM lab these days without stumbling over some kind of parallel processing development project . |
| 10 | Can you tell me how much it is to get in Elland Road these days , I would also give you petrol money . |
| 11 | That is unless , like Wade Dooley whom Rodber joined in the England pack against Scotland and Ireland last season , he is picked for the Test against the South Africans four days later . |
| 12 | He had returned from Addis Ababa two days before , apparently cured , but his throat had now flared up again and when I arrived he could hardly speak . |
| 13 | Police investigating the IRA firebomb blitz at the Gateshead MetroCentre ten days ago say they are pleased by the response to a weekend appeal to shoppers for information . |
| 14 | At the beginning of February the Coastguard sector officer in Kirkcudbright had to deal with a pair of canoeists from a college in the middle of the Lake District who strayed into the Abbey Head ranges on the north side of the Solway Firth two days in succession . |
| 15 | Even Gould wrote to the Broad Street household three days after the event . |
| 16 | ( First Edition ) THE LEAGUE 'S board of directors yesterday found Castleford and Hull guilty of bringing the game into disrepute by brawling in their Wheldon Road meeting 10 days ago , and fined each club £3,000 , writes Paul Wilson . |
| 17 | It was bought in Symonds Yat on the Gloucestershire / Herefordshire border six days ago . |
| 18 | The plot failed when one soldier peeped inside the box of Quality Street chocolates two days later and discovered 2lbs of semtex explosive . |
| 19 | Joana died in a Bristol hospital 11 days later . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | I understand Tennant , an American , met Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam 10 days ago but he refuses to confirm or deny their rendezvous . |
| 22 | Roosevelt sent a note to Ambassador Winant two days later saying : ‘ please take the following message personally to Winston and convince him that he has got to come through . |
| 23 | On the morning of the Melbourne Stakes , which was to be Phar Lap 's warm-up race for the Melbourne Cup three days later , he was shot at from the window of a car as he returned from exercise . |
| 24 | A Market Research Scotland survey put Labour on 43 per cent , up five points from a MRS poll five days earlier . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | All roads seem to lead to Hewlett-Packard Co these days , and the company has now won Fujitsu Ltd as a licensee for its SoftBench framework for creating open integrated software development environments — the first licence on the thing in Japan . |
| 27 | All roads seem to lead to Hewlett-Packard Co these days , and the company has now also won Fujitsu Ltd as a licensee for SoftBench — the first licence on the thing in Japan . |
| 28 | There was a report in the paper about the coronation and the unveiling of the memorial to Queen Victoria two days before the coronation , and about the many crowned heads of Europe who were going to be present , including the German Emperor , the late Queen 's grandson . |
| 29 | He arrived at Santa de Nogueira three days before the spirit warrior . |
| 30 | St Tropez these days is a circus and we made the mistake of eating with the elephants . |