Example sentences of "a [adj] hours after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 2 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 3 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , there is no certain way of knowing of food is dangerous … until a few hours after it is eaten . |
| 5 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 6 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 7 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 8 | Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted . |
| 9 | Stuart was only 17 years old and it is a tribute to his strength and personality that he was still conscious when the rescue team arrived , one and a half hours after I left him to go for help . |