Example sentences of "[adv] after [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hunt itself moved on after a few minutes , leaving the terrier man to flush out the fox . |
| 2 | The three piece leather does make for a lot of stitching at the sides and this suffered quite badly after a few days on rough moraine . |
| 3 | Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain . |
| 4 | Only after a few days ' exposure to New York sunlight did they readjust to local time . |
| 5 | Sorry , I run a health spa in Scotland and I see an awful lot of women who obviously come in for some slight improvement but quite frankly it is the stress factor that shows in the face that does n't make them quite so beautiful because their personalities comes across for when their stressed it shows in their face and I notice when they leave only after a few days the stress has gone and their personality shines through and their far more beautiful . |
| 6 | ‘ At one stage we thought Freddie was going to get John thrown out but they both calmed down after a few minutes , ’ added the source . |
| 7 | New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers . |
| 8 | However , most mares settle down after a few weeks . |
| 9 | They took the net down after a few weeks but kept it handy , you know . |
| 10 | Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone . |
| 11 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 12 | So after a few words , he says , Oh well , right I 'll put you through as yard foreman from next week . |
| 13 | Already after a few days it became clear that the German troops had not succeeded in repulsing the Normandy landing , and that the deployment of the V1 — rapidly dubbed ‘ Versager I ’ ( ‘ Failure No . |
| 14 | If your symptoms do n't go away after a few minutes it is probable that you have n't caught it quickly enough and in this case you will need to use the technique of ‘ rebreathing ’ . |
| 15 | They rotate the hips , all babies are routinely examined at delivery and they 'll find quite a number I would , of babies with slightly clicky hips , the reason for that is because of the hormones that have , er are in the baby 's body to relax all the muscles , those will go away after a few days , so when they 're re-checked at twelve days a number of the clicks they heard originally will no longer be there . |
| 16 | At this point I could have gone home , foreseeing a frustrating week ahead full of missed takes ; nevertheless after a few words ( all unprintable ) from Rick the cat rod was recast for a third time . |
| 17 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 18 | People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences . |
| 19 | so like after a few days I can her saying , oh , I 'm gon na have to go , I 'm gon na have to feed dog and they 're having it put down , they 're having it put down . |
| 20 | These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case . |
| 21 | This is filtered off after a few days , and the company is left with sheets of a solid , somewhat resembling uncooked pastry , which is then flavoured and textured . |
| 22 | The customer gives up after a few months waiting . |
| 23 | And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months |
| 24 | I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds . |
| 25 | Some people who comply well with all that is suggested to them may have done little more than comply ( incidentally , much of the " normal " first year of recovery is reckoned to be little more than compliance ) and think erroneously after a few weeks of treatment that they have learnt all they need to know and have done all they need to do to remain free from addictive disease . |
| 26 | The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe . |
| 27 | In this way , the small proportion of white cats that can hear will become more common and the defect could , in theory , be wiped out after a few generations . |
| 28 | There are many different varieties of scabetic mite infesting various mammals , and , although the mites from different animals appear to be similar , they are probably species specific because infestation by the mite from domestic animals does not ‘ take ’ in the human and dies out after a few weeks . |
| 29 | All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days . |
| 30 | I 'm f used to that now after a few years . |