Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] after [art] few " 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 New York became conditioned to skyscrapers which were torn down after a few years ' life to be replaced by newer skyscrapers .
3 People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences .
4 The attendant came back after a few minutes , its little red boots ruffling the hem of its robe .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I remember when after a few months in uniform duty , walking the beat , I was on West End Road , next to the Olympic Theatre , where there had been a building site and there was Collins World Fair there .
8 All these ruffles should be smoothed out after a few days .
9 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 ’ .
10 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 .
11 These appear to die off after a few weeks in the water , but this is not actually the case .
12 Institutionalism sets in after a few months , and active people slow down and soon learn not to complain .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 I made a mental effort to visualise his new house , to create some mind picture , but gave up after a few seconds .
16 And like Kim 'll be the first one to say she gave up after a few months
17 The customer gives up after a few months waiting .
18 ‘ 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 .
19 However , most mares settle down after a few weeks .
20 I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’
21 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 .
22 Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away .
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