Example sentences of "a few [noun] after [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ It 's my guess that the reunion really will take place — probably only a few minutes after her arrival . ’
2 When he asked to see her in his study , a few days after her return from Blaworth , she feared the worst .
3 The invitation arrived just a few days after my trip to Denver in 1990 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 A few days after his arrival my father was received in audience .
8 The freedom , has , of course , been criticised — especially after the ferocious attack on Lord Goddard made by Mr Bernard Levin in " The Times " a few days after his death .
9 All too often , a ‘ best of all time show-stopper ’ is difficult to find only a few years after its introduction , superseded by yet another new name .
10 For a few years after his return to Edinburgh he prepared anatomical and pathological demonstrations in the Department of Anatomy , but latterly he withdrew from public affairs .
11 The only other Briton to win both Opens is Tony Jacklin who , incidentally , came to Jersey to live and play golf for a few years after his retirement from the professional circuit .
12 One of these was Lynn Bari , who has typically had to wait a few weeks after her death before receiving an obituary due her .
13 as if to confirm these notions of her importance , an enormous party was held in the villa a few weeks after her arrival .
14 A few weeks after their visit to the Peristrephic Panorama , her father was rowing her slowly across the serpentine lake on the neighbouring estate of Lord F- .
15 A few weeks after our meeting I accepted his invitation to become a member of that Commission , which also included David Donnison , Noel Annan ( Lord Annan ) , John Vaizey ( now Lord Vaizey ) , and Bernard Williams ( then married to Shirley Williams ) .
16 It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself .
17 A few weeks after his escape from a film disaster , Dustin came shatteringly close to a disaster of a more fatal kind .
18 Within a few weeks after his arrival in Morocco , only a handful of servants , bodyguards and Dr Prima , the paediatrician , remained with the Shah and the Queen .
19 For a few seconds after their departure , the room was silent .
20 Applegarth had joined the International Working Men 's Association ( the First International ) in January 1865 , a few months after its foundation , and at the third congress in Brussels in June 1868 he was elected chairman of the general council .
21 It was completed a few months after its companion piece ( the G major Quartet Op. 106 and subsequently the composer devoted himself to programmatic tone poems and operas .
22 Called the Autoglide , the opener has had its price cut by £100 to £346 ( including VAT ) just a few months after its launch , making is even better value for money .
23 A few months after her death , in 1841 , he married Julia Starky , the sister of the Revd Samuel Starky .
24 A few months after their wedding , they were seen as a married couple again — this time , in the film Henry V.
25 John McAllister , his American grandfather , had sold out his interest in his family steel and railway holdings shortly before the Wall Street Crash ; he had died towards the end of the war , a few months after his wife .
26 Then , too , the Garfields of KILSBY and ASHBY ST LEDGERS were the forefathers of another president , James Garfield , whose tenure , however , was one of the briefest in American history ; his term was cut short by an assassin 's bullet just a few months after his inauguration .
27 His father died a few months after his birth and his grandmother then ruled as regent .
28 A few months after his death I finally was able to write an elegy for my father , ‘ died 21st January , 1958 ’ , which is the final poem in The Prodigal Son .
29 A few months after his death , I was asked to act as editor of this bicentenary history of the Royal Veterinary College , and I am proud to have been one of the team that has produced a book which I hope does justice to the author and to the College .
30 I remember a few months after my daughter Kate was born in 1981 receiving a call from Number 10 .
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