Example sentences of "[verb] a few seconds later " in BNC.

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1 Retention alone is not sufficient for comprehension , but without this mental black-board will be difficult to relate the meaning of one word to the meaning of another seen a few seconds later .
2 Now and again one zooms over about tree-top height but soon disappears , followed a few seconds later by Allied fighters .
3 About fifty or sixty yards away on the right-band side of the road a mortar bomb burst in the hedgerow , followed a few seconds later by four German soldiers carrying automatic weapons jumping from the hedgerow and scampering along the road .
4 There was no answer , only silence again , followed a few seconds later by the crashing sound .
5 Facet augmentation returned a few seconds later .
6 The jeep-driver went into the farmhouse and emerged a few seconds later with the burly man .
7 The hand rampaged through various pockets and emerged a few seconds later with a rectangle of paper torn from a reporter 's notebook .
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