Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] later a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments later a barge hove into view . |
| 2 | So I hung around and , sure enough , a few minutes later a squad car turned up all its lights flashing . |
| 3 | As I was struggling down the yard with the fully laden bucket a few minutes later a neighbour , Mrs Woods , saw me . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But just a few minutes later a playgroup worker found the baby lying on the tiled floor next to the pushchair . |
| 6 | A few minutes later a car drew up , its brakes screeching in the best SS fashion . |
| 7 | A few minutes later a youth with a shattered left knee-cap was wheeled on a low-slung ambulance trolley into the Cleansing Theatre . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A few months later a shuttle carried Jaq up to a great black ship circling in orbit . |
| 11 | A few months later a man living in Herne Bay in Kent found a live earthworm in his garden after a rainstorm . |
| 12 | Leave was refused at first instance and in the Court of Appeal , though a few months later a Practice Direction ( [ 1986 ] 2 All ER 226 ) was issued indicating the collective view of the judges that solicitors should be permitted to appear in the High Court or Court of Appeal in formal or unopposed proceedings . |
| 13 | I was n't therefore able to recommend this film when a few months later a woman from Nottingham requested a loan . |