Example sentences of "few [noun pl] after [noun] ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 2 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |
| 3 | A few years after Coleman 's death it contained dried specimens under an accumulation of discoloured varnish , plus an incomplete horse skeleton , but there was no catalogue . |
| 4 | A few years after Lanfranc 's arrival , Eadmer described the English monks as living the lives of earls rather than monks , ‘ in all worldly glory , with gold and silver , with changes of fine clothes and delicate food , not to speak of the various kinds of musical instruments in which they delighted , and the horses , dogs and hawks with which they sometimes took exercise ’ . |
| 5 | And yet , a few years after Gromyko 's death , Marshka had proved himself to be an even greater survivor . |
| 6 | He was killed when he stepped on a mine in Indochina on 25 May 1954 , a few days after Bischof 's death . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | A few days after Ranulf 's encounter with the drunken porter , Corbett decided that , for the moment , there was little else he could learn in the priory . |
| 9 | One day , a few weeks after Granny 's funeral , Mary came home earlier than usual from work . |
| 10 | A few weeks after Tobermory 's death an elephant escaped from the Dresden Zoo and killed an English visitor . |
| 11 | A few weeks after Burghley 's death one Dr James was paid by the Privy Council to remove the Lord Treasurer 's papers from his house : the great collections at Hatfield and in the Lansdowne MSS show how limited was his success ; and later efforts by Thomas Wilson to establish a state paper office during the reign of James I seem also to have been largely vain . |
| 12 | SKIPPER Clive Freeman cracked a brilliant goal and a few jokes after Altrincham 's record-equalling 15th FA Cup triumph over League opposition . |