Example sentences of "three days before [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Genesis the apple was created three days before man , and it is the world 's most cultivated tree fruit . |
| 2 | Details for inclusion in this column must be received in writing three days before publication . |
| 3 | Details for inclusion in this column must be received in writing three days before publication . |
| 4 | Details for inclusion in this column must be received in writing three days before publication . |
| 5 | While the report was acknowledging considerable dieback , the press release which accompanied it three days before Christmas ( a traditional moment for government departments to ‘ bury ’ embarrassing statistics ) spoke only of ‘ no sign … of the forest decline which is of such great concern in central Europe ’ . |
| 6 | In a similar tragedy three days before Christmas last year , father-of-six David Button , 34 , was knocked off his cycle and killed on his way to work from his home in Hedgerley , Bucks . |
| 7 | Just three days before Christmas last year , Noreen Button 's husband was killed in a carbon copy of the accident that claimed David Adams 's life on Wednesday . |
| 8 | Three days before Christmas Vernon was brushing down the front steps when he saw Meredith crossing the end of the street . |
| 9 | Three days before Christmas , I was approached by an RUC inspector — a practising Christian — who felt the pain , the grief and the shame of the callous disregard for life which resulted in murder , maiming , brutality and hatred between the two main sections of the community . |
| 10 | ‘ The second occasion , of course , was when I was hit by a car in Monte Carlo on my third visit there … let me see , yes , it would have been twenty-seven years ago , three days before Christmas . |