Example sentences of "a few [noun] later [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | A few moments later a barge hove into view . |
2 | A few moments later the other followed . |
3 | And when a few moments later the telephone goes , and the gas man says that he wo n't after all be coming today to service the boiler , he gets his head bitten off ! |
4 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
5 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
6 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
7 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
8 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
9 | He could not explain why he ran or why he and David abandoned a car a few minutes later a mile from the town centre . |
10 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
11 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
12 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
13 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
14 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
15 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
16 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
17 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
18 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
19 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
20 | Before the patient left St Mary 's Hospital , a leading article headed ‘ Penicillium ’ appeared in The Times and a few days later a letter was published from Sir Almroth Wright claiming Fleming as the discoverer of penicillin . |
21 | A few days later a group of nobles keen to impress Aurangzeb broke into the quarters where Dara was being kept , a small garden outside the walls of Shahjehanabad towards Nizamuddin . |
22 | So , Bob gets the person who recommended him to recommend me , and a few days later the ticket , and the rule book , arrives : |
23 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |
24 | ‘ A few days later the army assembled outside Edinburgh and a ghostly voice was heard shouting at midnight . |
25 | A few days later the man came to hospital because his stomach hurt . |
26 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
27 | If a few days later the salesman 's firm sends the customer a letter accepting the customer 's offer , the contract is made , not during the visit , but a few days later . |
28 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
29 | A few days later the sheep-shearing began . |
30 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |