Example sentences of "few [noun pl] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | We sat chatting for a few minutes after finishing our meal . |
| 2 | Mustard should be allowed to stand for a few minutes after mixing and before serving to allow the flavour to develop , but mix little and often the flavour will be retained but the pungency will soon be lost . |
| 3 | Ian equalised for the Palace a few minutes after coming on to the field , then put us ahead in extra-time for one of the most telling substitutions in the annals of the great competition |
| 4 | The weather , observed at Goose Bay Airport a few minutes after the accident , was scattered cloud at 800 feet , overcast cloud at 3,400 feet , visibility ten miles , temperature 54°F , dewpoint 53° F and the wind 325° M at seven knots . |
| 5 | A few minutes after speaking to Haines , a call came through . |
| 6 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 7 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 8 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 9 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 10 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 11 | He said he could do that in a few minutes after getting to his office , and I arranged to ring him later in the morning . |
| 12 | ‘ He was kind enough to give me a few minutes after Evensong yesterday . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ It 's my guess that the reunion really will take place — probably only a few minutes after her arrival . ’ |
| 14 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 15 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 16 | A few minutes after restarting he picked up the autobahn to Salzburg . |
| 17 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 18 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 19 | A few minutes after twelve o'clock I reported to the police station . |
| 20 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 21 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 22 | A few hours after death a two-tone bream reverts to one colour , the lighter shade . |
| 23 | The harvested roots are bulky and heavy to transport and they must be crushed within a few hours after harvest to avoid loss of the sugary Juice . |
| 24 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 25 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |
| 26 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
| 27 | Your body is most amenable to replenishing muscle glycogen in those first few hours after exercising . |
| 28 | She made the clothes , baked , cooked , brewed beer and sold it , made butter and sold it , decorated others ' houses , took in others ' washing and brought up her remarkable family with little help from her husband , often penniless a few hours after getting his wage packet , a greater child , perhaps , than any of her own . |
| 29 | In the first few hours after the verdict , 60 people were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct . |
| 30 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |