Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] later [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he missed the flight by minutes , and a few hours later his father died . |
| 2 | A few minutes later our train came in and we established ourselves in a first class carriage . |
| 3 | And when she was overcome with remorse and apologized so sweetly a few minutes later his admiration for her was boundless . |
| 4 | A few days later his body was found at his council house in the Oxfordshire hamlet of Russell 's Water near Henley . |
| 5 | I never forgot his face , and sure enough a few nights later his aircraft was one of those that failed to return . |
| 6 | They were a captive audience for the beautiful satin and silk and a few weeks later their mothers would be complaining to Mr Smith that their weekly pound had not been received . |
| 7 | A few weeks later his article , putatively about my Wellesley talk , appeared . |
| 8 | A few seconds later her face had gone , as the cloud changed shape then disappeared . |
| 9 | Lepine was knocked unconscious by the impact and a few seconds later his head was hacked from his shoulders by a flurry of coupe-coupe blows rained on him in the driving seat by the surviving coolies . |
| 10 | The portiere , an over-weight , ill-tempered man of sixty , shouted into the courtyard and a few seconds later his grandson Aldo arrived . |
| 11 | Though the five years they spent here were to be ultimately clouded by the death of first their eldest daughter in 1869 and then a few months later their infant son , it was probably the happiest period in their marriage , and they enjoyed social life with the local landowning gentry . |