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Example sentences for "days before"

  • Was this a couple of days before he left for Russia?

  • This was a couple of days before he left for New Orleans or about 1 day or 2 days before he left for New Orleans.

  • It was either a day or 2 days before April 20th is what it says on there.

  • Sir, 3 days before Mr. Oswald came into the Embassy, did you have occasion to write a letter to Mr. Boster in Washington, asking him how you should handle these matters of attempted renunciation of American citizenship?

  • He was in the Soviet Union 15 days before he went to the American Embassy.

  • The Vanished Pomps of Yesterday, Days Before Yesterday and Here, There and Everywhere are constantly in demand.

  • A bark, which had sailed from Sydney three days before us, had, as we were informed by our pilot, been one day in harbour.

  • He had left Barcelona 50 days before, and was bound for New York.

  • Now, before the time that Rachel was born, you said that he came to Irving during the week and spent 2 days before he got his job; was that just after he came back from Mexico?

  • It would seem significant to me from Reynolds' story that he was only checked by the law enforcement agencies 2 days before he was shot, that somebody was watching what was going on.

  • Yes, sir; he told me he had seen a rifle at the building 2 or 3 days before that Mr. Truly and some men were looking at.

  • It was published perhaps 2 days before, a day or two before.

  • No; that would have to--unless it had been reported to me they had moved, then the only way we would pick that up would be in the local liaison which begins some days before a trip.

  • Immediately when I read this story in the Kansas City paper I recognized it as being the same story that Mr. Hamblen had told me just a couple of days before in my office.

  • Oh, yes; just within a couple of days before, I think it was.

  • I went over the information that was contained in the newspaper article with Mr. Hamblen, reminding him that this was in effect the same story as he had told me just 2 days before, a few days before.

  • It must have been maybe a week or 10 days before I had seen Mrs. Oswald.

  • It remained in bags for days, untouched, while the postal forces, heavily increased from near-by cities, struggled with the accumulations of days before.

  • Days before, the American fleet had steamed out of the eastern end of Long Island Sound.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    accomplish their; been discovered; but his blood will; cold milk; days after; days each; days from; days gone; days later; deep river; does mean; dramatic representation; eight eggs; even when; first knew; gasoline engine; hundred yards from the; liquid form; much dreaded; one hundred and twenty; ordinary human; rusty brown; sufficient cause; think much; well filled; white men