Example sentences of "to [noun] [adj] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mikhail Gorbachev had returned to Moscow three days previously , after the failed coup , and , on the Saturday , resigned as general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) . |
| 2 | In a letter to Horsley nine days later he wrote : ‘ I believe that if the decision is made to go the way of the Sun , the tragedy will be of historic proportions . |
| 3 | Returning to camp several days later with twelve horses laden with meat , they were met by a warrior named Two Moons , who announced that the war had started . |
| 4 | The assault only came to light four days later , when he went to hospital for treatment . |
| 5 | Once the gales have blown themselves out and the depressions have ‘ filled ’ or moved away , we usually get a spell of settled weather when things return to normal.The few days of settled weather allow me to spend some hours fishing offshore for ling and tusk which , as well as providing me with relaxation and sport , is satisfyingly justified in my own mind because it is providing food for the family during the winter to come . |
| 6 | I go to college three days a week and I do furniture restoration which is upholstery one day polishing |
| 7 | Cecily Robinson brought her three leading dancers , Patricia Murphy , Lillian Graham and Luyt , to Johannesburg four days early , so that they could become used to the high altitude , which would affect their breathing , and to the steep rake of the stage . |
| 8 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 9 | A weekend tour to Scotland ten days later leads in the County Championship season , all indicative of the care devoted by counties to finding , grooming and coaching talented young players . |
| 10 | What would be the point of a single glider being towed to Normandy eleven days after the invasion and the establishment of a bridgehead for the landing of men and supplies ? |
| 11 | ‘ It was like them pictures of Hell we used to get in Sunday school , ’ she told the other women when she returned to work two days later . |
| 12 | I said , well your mum 's been out to work five days a week and you just help |
| 13 | The 130,000 postal workers agreed to return to work three days later when the Interior Ministry agreed to make a payment of DM650-900 per employee . |
| 14 | Well she did work full time in London , but she said that was to much for her so she 's , she did n't work at all , now she 's gone back to work three days a week in Orpington I think . |
| 15 | And I quickened then , of course you dare n't go to work those days when once they knew you was pregnant it was a case of out . |
| 16 | On Jan. 25 Havel visited Poland , meeting President Wojciech Jaruzelski and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( who had himself made a working visit to Prague three days earlier ) , and addressing a joint session of both houses of parliament . |
| 17 | Ali is not up to repartee these days , never was , really , unless he was in the mood , and them he 'd fade you with one of his standard lines ( ‘ You no as dumb as you look ’ ) . |
| 18 | Hunt 's main claim to fame these days is his two-year term in prison for a particularly nasty libel — he called the Prince Regent ‘ a fat Adonis of 50 ’ . |
| 19 | Lewes would lead his group to Agheila two days later as they would have less distance to cover . |
| 20 | Wright , full of vigour and invention , was the motivating force as the Gunners made their way into the next round , where they must travel to Scarborough two days before Christmas . |
| 21 | Now they face non-League Yeovil in Saturday 's FA Cup third-round tie and a Coca-Cola Cup trip to Scarborough four days later . |
| 22 | Anne had given her the parcel to post two days ago and she had completely forgotten all about it . |
| 23 | It is admitted that there was er such a letter and er on this occasion er Miss evidence is that having heard that the landlords consent for the assignment still had n't been obtained , asked Mr again whether it was possible in view of that , er to withdraw from the contract and er it is case that again Mr repeated the advice he 'd given to Mr two days earlier and told her that it was not possible and that again is denied . |
| 24 | I went back to court seven days after that , there was a bail application put forward and the magistrate said he would grant bail with a surety of £500 . |
| 25 | Ahmed Ali denied on July 23 , in an interview with BBC radio , a claim made by the Sudanese ambassador to Djibouti four days earlier that the SNM had revoked the secession in an agreement signed with the Sudanese government . |
| 26 | 24 year old Alexander had been admitted to Fairmile three days before his death , following a family argument at home in Woodley , near Reading . |
| 27 | The Ark Royal , which docked in Lisbon on Wednesday , prepared to return to Portsmouth four days early after shore leave was cancelled following the incident . |
| 28 | He says he does n't take it to extremes these days , that he does n't date them . |
| 29 | Given half a chance they would ‘ retrobolt ’ ( what curious technical names they give to hearsay these days ) everything we hold dear . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that in my constituency people refer to buses these days , following deregulation , as bananas because they tend to arrive in bunches ? |