Example sentences of "[prep] days " in BNC.
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| 1 | After days of peace the door would crash open : ‘ There 's six men here with lorries . |
| 2 | It is certainly easy for those who did not belong to Lewis 's group of friends , and who merely come upon the record of it in after days , to see its faults . |
| 3 | After days of fighting between the army and the people in Togo , where President Gnassingbé Eyadéma has ruled for 24 years , a truce was agreed in mid-April . |
| 4 | After days of heavy rain and snow the going on the grass track at Laurel Park was soft , conditions very much against Sir Ivor . |
| 5 | Serbian forces yesterday claimed to have captured the centre of Bijeljina , in north-eastern Bosnia , after days of fierce gun battles with Muslims and Croats . |
| 6 | On our last evening in Dominica the weather was clear , after days of rain . |
| 7 | After days of reflection she decided to write back in the same icy terms Philip had used with her . |
| 8 | Day after days of grand beau brought no rest for those of us fortunate enough to be there . |
| 9 | On May 13th , after days of heavy selling by the markets — and heavy buying by Spain 's central bank — the government suspended its obligation to defend the peseta , and asked for another realignment of the system . |
| 10 | Interestingly it is precisely this issue which put the story on the front page after days and days of inside-page coverage . |
| 11 | They had been miraculously wafted to this place after days without food or water in an open boat . |
| 12 | After days of begging from supporters I have at last compiled a comprehensive A-Z of football , Athletico style . |
| 13 | After days in searing heat , Australian aboriginals withstand cold nights in the desert without shivering ; possible mechanisms are enhanced metabolism , a lower threshold for the start of shivering , and a slight overnight fall in core temperature . |
| 14 | After days feeding thirty-eight |
| 15 | The striking point was his accuracy in navigation , for after days of dead reckoning , his latitude and longitude were in error by no more than five miles , despite difficulties of navigation in those waters . |
| 16 | Luckily she had walked , or tottered , in the right direction , and after days which she could no longer recall , sleeping in barns and eating raw eggs when she could find them , she woke up in a Red Cross Hospital . |
| 17 | After days of speculation about his future following the collapse of any central authority in the former Soviet Union and following a decision at the Dec. 21 Alma Ata meeting to abolish the post of President , Mikhail Gorbachev announced his resignation on Dec. 25 in a speech on All-Union Television . |
| 18 | On Oct. 17 , after days of speculation , the results of the country 's first multiparty elections held on Sept. 29-30 [ see p. 39082 ] were published . |
| 19 | War-talk for night after night as the lamps burned in the hall , after days spent in sport and hunting and exercise . |
| 20 | After days of near-solitude Paige found the barrage of questions bewildering and not a little alarming . |
| 21 | ‘ Every morning , ’ he writes , ‘ I left my mother 's place and went straight to Brion 's , we had a cup of tea and a puff and days after days I left for home at five … |
| 22 | After days of speculation , during which racing 's ruling body had said that there was ‘ no evidence of skulduggery ’ , a statement from the Jockey Club confirmed trainers ' worst fears . |
| 23 | After days of coalition building , Benazir Bhutto could only wait to see if it had paid off . |
| 24 | As well now as after days of hiding and waiting . |
| 25 | The next couple of days passed without incident . |
| 26 | Unless I went back to Harwich , I was going to be flat broke in a couple of days and just at that moment the last thing I wanted to do was to go back to Harwich . |
| 27 | I went with Kathleen to see it a couple of days later . |
| 28 | The following morning I worked as usual and then asked Kathleen if I could have a couple of days off . |
| 29 | My blue period officially ends when we have a big leaving party for Kathleen and Katrina in a couple of days ' time but in fact it probably ends just about now . |
| 30 | I could make up the detections that his presence lost me in a matter of days , and if he thinks he is going to see any wheeling and dealing when he is sitting in , well he 's naive ! |