Example sentences of "a few days after " in BNC.
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| 1 | While we were all getting ready for work one morning , a few days after the above conversation , one of the other girls ( Martha ) transferred a fifty-pound note from her handbag to the pocket of her apron , which was at that point still hanging by the door with everyone else 's . |
| 2 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 3 | Washington 's stance seems sure to complicate the United Airlines buyout , which was to close a few days after the 10 October deadline set by Mr Skinner for information on BA 's involvement . |
| 4 | A few weeks , sometimes only a few days after a major disaster or tragedy — Hillsborough , Piper Alpha or Zeebrugge — there 's bound to be a gag about it . |
| 5 | Mary Finnigan : ‘ A few days after the death of David 's father , the free festival went ahead as planned and the day was fabulous ; the sun shone and everybody but everybody had a wonderful time . |
| 6 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 7 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |
| 8 | A few days after Hitler 's repetition of his ‘ prophecy ’ on 30 January 1942 , the SD reported that his words had been ‘ interpreted to mean that the Führer 's battle against the Jews would be followed through to the end with merciless consistency , and that very soon the last Jew would disappear from European soil ’ . |
| 9 | A few days after his birth , as she pulled herself to life and became indissolubly bound by bonds of tender passion to the helpless being she had created , she had wanted to kill him lovingly herself . |
| 10 | A few days after lovingly comparing his wife to a Bavarian cow , he issued divorce proceedings because Ilona was playing footsy with the Italian Love party , a coalition of pornographers — ‘ terrible men , like pimps , ’ Koons told me — seeking publicity for their tawdry wares . |
| 11 | The idea of writing it , Mariana says , struck her ‘ a few days after that wonderful ‘ love doubles ’ in London , when I played with Bjorn against Chris Evert and her husband , John Lloyd . ’ |
| 12 | A few days after the discovery , local authorities received a call from a woman claiming to be a clairvoyant . |
| 13 | ONLY a few days after the fourth Conservative victory in a row , it is slightly depressing to read that health authorities have allocated millions and millions of extra pounds to a campaign to persuade family practitioners to hand out free condoms to their patients , whether or not they are at high risk of contracting the new American disease . |
| 14 | Certainly , Jacques passed on Green 's approbation of Barker 's attitude to Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith a few days after the late February meeting : |
| 15 | The second dramatisation to have a major impact in the 1980s was shown only a few days after ‘ Walter ’ . |
| 16 | In January 1983 , BBC2 's Man Alive showed a documentary called ‘ Only Time Would Tell ’ which discussed the life of Matthew Crosby , an 18 year old Down 's teenager mainly through the eyes of his mother , Anne Crosby , who continues to believe that Matthew would have been better off dead and recalls her desire to end his life with a pillow a few days after his birth . |
| 17 | My secondary education began in Cardiff in September 1939 , a few days after listening to Neville Chamberlain 's broadcast . |
| 18 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 19 | They would be noticeable for a few days after passing into the camp , unfamiliar faces asking the way to the lavatories , or being excused washing-up by the people in whose rooms they had been placed . |
| 20 | Both Andrew and Judith arrived in Vancouver much in need of rest to recuperate from their hazardous and near-fatal experiences as passengers on the ill-fated liner ‘ Athenia ’ , which was torpedoed and sunk by a Nazi submarine off the Eire coast a few days after the outbreak of World War II . |
| 21 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 22 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 23 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 24 | Its cochlea , that vital , snail-shaped organ in the inner ear , will have started to degenerate a few days after birth , and the deterioration is completely irreversible . |
| 25 | ‘ A few days after the funeral , ’ I said , ‘ Karen phoned to ask if I 'd come over and help her dispose of some of Dennis 's effects . |
| 26 | It 's not unusual for many women to feel depressed a few days after giving birth . |
| 27 | When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst . |
| 28 | It rained for a few days after that shake of early March . |
| 29 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 30 | A few days after the birth she fell into a post-natal depression . |