Example sentences of "[vb past] a few days " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | In the centre of the clearing where they have stopped is a Red Indian wigwam , the one Odd-Knut erected a few days before . |
| 2 | It might just be the voice of support at a meeting or the follow-up on a personal problem mentioned a few days ago . |
| 3 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 4 | A bottle of vintage champagne was cracked open , and a toast drunk to Virginia 's exam results received a few days earlier . |
| 5 | ‘ They had a long and very happy life together , and when her husband finally died Lucia only lingered a few days before following him . ’ |
| 6 | Ian 's moment of glory came a few days later . |
| 7 | It can not be simply the distortions of hindsight that cast Alison Kraemer in the role of spoiler , for the effect was to throw us all into a foul temper , heightening the existing tensions until they exploded a few days later with devastating results . |
| 8 | happened a few days ago |
| 9 | Trouble flared a few days before MacQuillan 's death , when it became apparent the inventor was in effect conducting an auction and the price of buying the securely patented new carton had shot alarmingly high . |
| 10 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 11 | The first shipment arrived a few days ago and the stallholder got his stock on Friday evening . |
| 12 | When they met a few days later in Benghazi they quarrelled and the Zliten boy knifed the Zuwayi in the arm . |
| 13 | The Saudi plant at Safaniya was closed as a precautionary measure on Feb. 8 , but reopened a few days later . |
| 14 | The results , announced a few days later , made it clear that the proposition had been carried by a very large majority . |
| 15 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 16 | She wrote that she would prefer not to come home , but Tony and Maureen got a few days ' leave and travelled to Kent to see her . |
| 17 | The evacuation of children , and the mothers of children under five , from London and other large cities began a few days before the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 19 | He returned a few days later to meet the proprietors and Bernard , recognizing there was a limit to their own international expansion at this stage , and ever keen to find outlets for the masses of cloth being printed , immediately proposed to Trevaskis that they worked together , not in competition . |
| 20 | He returned a few days later a broken man . |
| 21 | Dana and I spent a few days in London again before travelling to Spain . |
| 22 | The landscape reminds me of the west coast of Ireland , of Inishere , the smallest of the Aran Islands on which I once spent a few days — the same tradition of building walls to clear land as much as to protect . |
| 23 | Shortly before moving to London , I spent a few days visiting ancient and mystical sites in Cornwall . |
| 24 | Before I left for San Francisco I spent a few days wandering the considerable length and the decidedly inconsiderable breadth of the Canal , newest of the major approaches to Balboa 's ocean . |
| 25 | We spent a few days talking about our friends in Moscow and Leningrad . |
| 26 | As a soldier stationed on the South Coast at the time of D- Day , I spent a few days in London where I attended the Proms . |
| 27 | After living in London for a while the couple spent a few days in Bournemouth and on St Swithun 's Day 1875 they came by steamer to Swanage . |
| 28 | In August one year he spent a few days holiday at Saxon-les-Bains in the Rhone Valley , where he had an interest in a fruit preserving factory . |
| 29 | ‘ We spent a few days on manoeuvres . |
| 30 | Even now a fast ion may be shooting through you that escaped a few days ago from the Jovian magnetosphere . |