Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] after the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 2 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A second example involves an argument by means of which the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahé claimed to have refuted the Copernican theory a few decades after the first publication of that theory . |
| 6 | Richmann and his remaining man ran a few yards after the departing car , blazing away with a frustrated volley which only succeeded in blowing a few holes out of the bodywork and setting fire to the rear-mounted spare wheel . |
| 7 | Rushing Wild 's jockey , Richard Dunwoody , gave Dwyer a pat on the back a few yards after the winning post . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the manager had wanted to take tough disciplinary action against Johnstone another opportunity arose a few days after the drunken sailor saga . |
| 13 | MANCHESTER United and Aston Villa are to play at Windsor Park on May 12 — a few days after the final fixtures in what has been a fiercely contested inaugural Premier League battle between them and Norwich City . |
| 14 | Had we reduced the dividend , our share price would have fallen sharply but , as I write a few days after the Annual General Meeting , the share price is a robust 180p — 26 times our earnings per share . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A few days after the Argentinian surrender , I saw her for a meeting on health service pay . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It opens a few years after the final English conquest of Wales in 1282/3 ; it closes with the outbreak of the last great Welsh revolt . |
| 21 | One of the sharpest recessions came a few years after the Conservative government , sensitive to the enormous profits made in earlier years , had imposed ( in 1963 ) a variable levy rising to 45 per cent on the companies ' advertising revenue ( as distinct from their profits ) . |
| 22 | Just when the mother is in greatest need of support , attention is likely to have waned — a few weeks after the actual birth . |
| 23 | Bradl injured himself again at Calafat , a few weeks after the final GP . |
| 24 | Nobody would guess from that admirably impersonal account that Milton settled to write his first divorce only a few weeks after the bitter disappointment of his marriage . |
| 25 | Iran 's relations with other West European countries began to improve a few months after the initial call by Ayatollah Khomeini for Rushdie 's death , although Rafsanjani 's statement in May 1989 advocating the killing of five Westerners for every Palestinian killed in the occupied territories [ see pp. 36669-70 ] drew a strong rebuke from the Council of Ministers of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 26 | This leap into the future comes only a few months after the dest … ruction by fire of — ’ |