1.   Attached to his will was a letter he had written to his wife just days before his death.

2.   NURSE Toral Sharan is busy organising a major charity event just days after giving up work to take maternity leave.

3.   Among them are Afghans who defected to the alliance from the Taliban just days before the city fell.

4.   As in June, Gabon is raising the issue of its departure just days before OPEC meets for one of its annual conferences.

5.   A year ago, Clinton proceeded with the address just days after the scandal over his relationship with Monica Lewinsky burst into public.

6.   After weeks of peppering each other with attack ads, the candidates dramatically toned down their approach just days before the election.

7.   Albright traveled to China this week just days after the State Department published a withering report on repression in China.

8.   Brake, Davis said, told detectives he bought the pistol at a Seattle gun show just days before he walked into the antique store.

9.   Bush nonetheless acknowledged the likely role of environmental policy in the campaign at a news conference just days before he announced that he was definitely in the race.

10.   But the sudden market downturn just days before the election enabled Democrats to point out that Whitman had put the state at risk should stocks tumble steadily downward.