Example sentences of "after a few [noun pl] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 After a few hours the butterflies can be released .
2 After a few moments the snuffles and grunts were overlaid by a voice explaining in sympathetically conspiratorial tones that we were listening to the sounds made by mating koalas in the Pilliga Nature Reserve in New South Wales .
3 After a few days the surgeons opened her brain ( craniotomy ) from the right side , and clipped the aneurysms .
4 After a few months the Girls would be sent to perform in casinos , mainly dotted round the south of France and Monte Carlo .
5 Webbed feet were not designed for mountaineering , but after a few weeks the ducks had devised a method of hopping up the stairs one at a time , eating every morsel of bread along the way , until finally they were actually in my bedroom .
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