Example sentences of "a few days after " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the second visit , a few days after the first , the Japanese used natives in their ravages of the town , much to the disgust of local tribes . |
| 32 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 33 | Yet even though he got the chance to fight Mr Bush , he would not now be heading for the White House if it had not been for the disaster which hit the President a few days after that TV interview . |
| 34 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 35 | A few days after the première , Constanze 's mother decided that matters had gone on long enough between Mozart and Constanze , who had abandoned the fraught atmosphere of home to take temporary refuge with Mozart 's friend and patroness , the Baroness von Waldstädten . |
| 36 | A few days after his consecration the new Archbishop conducted a formal enquiry and pronounced , as Convocation had already done , that the King 's first marriage was invalid because the Pope had no power to allow him to marry his deceased brother 's wife . |
| 37 | American Ed Webster , one of the Buxton speakers , said a few days after visiting the Roaches that he had never seen so many climbers at a cliff . |
| 38 | One year , a few days after Christmas , I was walking in the Slieve Muck area . |
| 39 | The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 . |
| 40 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
| 41 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 42 | A fortnight later they announced themselves as the Provisional Government of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam and a few days after that , on 2 September , as the climax to weeks of stupendous political demonstrations , Vietnam declared its independence . |
| 43 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 44 | He knew it had been a failure with a contemporary audience , however , and he looked very sallow and melancholy a few days after its openings . |
| 45 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 46 | However , when he met those advisers a few days after assuming office , it was clear that many of them were gravely suspicious of Russian aims in the post-war period . |
| 47 | If the baby 's fed on water or for some reason does not take food normally , you may not find the problem , but a few days after milk feed this substance will begin to rise and it can be protected so the diagnosis is made by a test , does anybody know how the Guffbry test is done ? |
| 48 | On their first date she had shown Preston , with nonchalant pride , the scars where she had slashed her wrists a few days after her nineteenth birthday . |
| 49 | ‘ As it happened , the war ended a few days after the divorce . |
| 50 | He was killed when he stepped on a mine in Indochina on 25 May 1954 , a few days after Bischof 's death . |
| 51 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 52 | Team manager John Birch ( who shortly afterwards rocked the county by resigning , a few days after signing a new three-year contract ) explained : ‘ I have always felt that it was contrary to the best interests of a professional game to operate with a mainly semi-professional staff . |
| 53 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |
| 54 | Erm but that you know that that did n't carry on much more than a few days after the the initial disturbances . |
| 55 | On 15 December Helen 's baby , a tiny perfect girl , was born , but her labour was long and difficult and she was very ill for a few days after it . |
| 56 | The engagement was announced on 24 February 1981 , a few days after the two had consoled each other after the sudden death of the Prince 's horse Allibar . |
| 57 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 58 | A few days after the massacre , the Shah had an opportunity to show himself as a compassionate leader after an earthquake destroyed the town of Tabas and killed about twenty thousand people . |
| 59 | And if you look at the roofs of a row of houses , a few days after any snow fall , some roofs are free of snow quite quickly , and some take much longer , even although there 's no sun . |
| 60 | A few days after his thirteenth birthday , Tony left school too . |