Example sentences of "a few [noun] after [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 2 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
| 3 | Normally Rachel slept for a few hours after the feed and Carrie had made sure her husband knew what to do should the baby wake up before she got home . |
| 4 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 5 | However , a mother who is in contact with her baby immediately after delivery is much more likely to be able to do this than one who is not given her baby until a few hours after the birth . |
| 6 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 7 | A few hours after the accident , Yankel Rosenbaum , 29 , an Australian Hasidic Jew , was stabbed to death by a black Brooklyn gang in what appeared to be a retaliatory attack . |
| 8 | On June 8-9 some 1,300 suspected mafiosi were arrested in Sicily , Campania , Calabria and Puglia in the south of Italy , A few hours after the adoption by the outgoing government of a comprehensive plan to combat the activities of the Sicilian Mafia and other criminal organizations . |
| 9 | The weather , observed at Goose Bay Airport a few minutes after the accident , was scattered cloud at 800 feet , overcast cloud at 3,400 feet , visibility ten miles , temperature 54°F , dewpoint 53° F and the wind 325° M at seven knots . |
| 10 | Whilst the earliest phase lasted only a few minutes after the training trial , and the intermediate ones declined within the hour , long-term memory seemed to build up slowly over the first hour after training , and protein synthesis inhibitors would no longer disrupt it if they were administered more than an hour after the training ( Figure 10.1 ) |
| 11 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 12 | There was no single incident that Loretta could pinpoint as the cause , merely a series of minor hold-ups ; and Bridget had mislaid her car keys , causing them to set off a few minutes after the time they had agreed . |
| 13 | We could have a few beers after the match etc . |
| 14 | A few days after the massacre , the Shah had an opportunity to show himself as a compassionate leader after an earthquake destroyed the town of Tabas and killed about twenty thousand people . |
| 15 | ‘ As it happened , the war ended a few days after the divorce . |
| 16 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 17 | A few days after the discovery , local authorities received a call from a woman claiming to be a clairvoyant . |
| 18 | A few days after the birth she fell into a post-natal depression . |
| 19 | A few days after the action that was taken by my right hon. Friend , a magic wand was waved and somehow money was found to improve the Southend line . |
| 20 | The jury was told that Paul admitted using the bat in a game of baseball in Battersea Park just a few days after the killing . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Her father 's eldest sister , the aunt who now had the villa near Ravello where Sophia hoped to spend a few days after the visit to Rome , was in some ways very much like an older version of Penelope . |
| 23 | A few days after the première , Constanze 's mother decided that matters had gone on long enough between Mozart and Constanze , who had abandoned the fraught atmosphere of home to take temporary refuge with Mozart 's friend and patroness , the Baroness von Waldstädten . |
| 24 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | A few days after the murder , the police had searched the house and had found the gold chain in Justine 's coat pocket . |
| 28 | Only a few days after the conclusion of the Second International Congress of Writers for the Defence of Culture , held for the most part in Spain , itself a highly symbolic act of political and cultural allegiance to the Republican cause , Nizan was deeply shocked to learn of the tragic and unforeseen death of Gerda Taro , a young female photographer working for Ce Soir at the battle front near Brunete . |
| 29 | Gabrielle went to stay with her parents in the Kent countryside for a few days after the hearing , collected her thoughts and decided to carve out a life for herself and her children . |
| 30 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |