Example sentences of "a few hour after " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
3 | A few hours after death a two-tone bream reverts to one colour , the lighter shade . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | They actually reached Klagenfurt a few hours after us , so we could secure the best buildings and put sentries in them . |
11 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
12 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
13 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
14 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
15 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
16 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
17 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
18 | A few hours after the accident , Yankel Rosenbaum , 29 , an Australian Hasidic Jew , was stabbed to death by a black Brooklyn gang in what appeared to be a retaliatory attack . |
19 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
20 | On June 8-9 some 1,300 suspected mafiosi were arrested in Sicily , Campania , Calabria and Puglia in the south of Italy , A few hours after the adoption by the outgoing government of a comprehensive plan to combat the activities of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations . |
21 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
22 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
23 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
24 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
25 | Muriel Brunton , 70 , was found a few hours after ‘ a ferocious attack ’ lying dead in the hall of her home in Haigh Road , Aspull , Wigan . |
26 | Last night 's shooting occurred a few hours after the previous victim , a former Irish Republican Army man shot dead by the Provos for allegedly turning police informer , was buried in Belfast . |