Example sentences of "[art] few [noun] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | United Biscuits was one of the few fallers after confirmation that it had sold its Terry 's chocolate division to Kraft of the U.S. in a deal worth £220 million . |
| 2 | Much of Taskopruzade 's work is concerned with scholars of the period before there was what might properly be called a learned hierarchy ; and though in his own lifetime a hierarchy of learned offices existed and certainly the basic principles of the hierarchy had been formulated it was by no means as thoroughly elaborated or rigid as it was to become even in the few decades after his death . |
| 3 | ‘ You 'd love the few letters after her name though , would n't you now , Bunty ? ’ |
| 4 | For many mammals , the smell bond built up during the few hours after birth is crucial . |
| 5 | In the few years after 1958 a new word ( and , underlying it , a new fear ) took root : the meritocracy . |
| 6 | Having left Scratchwood a few moments after the other vehicle , the mustard-coloured van , its roof rack carrying a decorator 's ladder , also turned off at Junction 4 , but then picked up the Uxbridge road before turning south towards Harrow-on-the-Hill and the home of Beth and Ali Christie . |
| 7 | Then in the 1979 paper he found that subjects placed the time of occurrence of this sensation only a few milliseconds after the peripheral stimulus which evoked it . |
| 8 | Sir : A few hours after reading Terry Coleman 's article on the United Nations General Assembly ( 30 September ) , I came across this passage in Trollope 's Barchester Towers , which exactly expressed my feelings , and , I hope , those of many others of your readers : I know no life that must be so delicious as that of a writer for the newspapers … to thunder forth accusations against men in power ; show up the worst side of everything that is produced ; to pick holes in every coat ; to be indignant , sarcastic , jocose , moral , or supercilious ; to damn with faint praise , or crush with open calumny . |
| 9 | She died with her husband on the next day , only a few hours after writing her letter . |
| 10 | A few hours after death a two-tone bream reverts to one colour , the lighter shade . |
| 11 | The harvested roots are bulky and heavy to transport and they must be crushed within a few hours after harvest to avoid loss of the sugary Juice . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Said , ‘ I am not a very political politician , ’ and then proved it by singing ‘ My Darling Clementine ’ live on Irish TV a few hours after an IRA massacre . |
| 14 | A protocell probably came into being a few hours after the formation of proteins . |
| 15 | She made the clothes , baked , cooked , brewed beer and sold it , made butter and sold it , decorated others ' houses , took in others ' washing and brought up her remarkable family with little help from her husband , often penniless a few hours after getting his wage packet , a greater child , perhaps , than any of her own . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They actually reached Klagenfurt a few hours after us , so we could secure the best buildings and put sentries in them . |
| 18 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I only know that he turned up a few hours after the accident and got into some row with the head copper . |
| 21 | You said he turned up a few hours after the event , so it seems likely he left London at short notice . |
| 22 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 23 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
| 24 | A post-mortem on Allan McKay showed that he probably died only a few hours after leaving home . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The attack came only a few hours after the Thai Interior Minister , Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi , had issued a " last warning " to the Myanman military to withdraw all its troops from the Thai side of the border . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
| 29 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 30 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |