Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] after [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 2 | This is not an area where policies and procedures can be formulated after a few incidents have been experienced . |
| 3 | If these were inappropriate then bewilderment and anxiety occurred and the interaction tended to be terminated after a few limited responses leaving a residual sense of uncertainty , displeasure and frustration . |
| 4 | Certain structural aspects of HARPY 's finite-state network allows many hypotheses to be eliminated after a few words . |
| 5 | They were persuaded after a few days to go back to far-off Shaanxi province and continue to do their duty in their ‘ adopted rural home ’ . |
| 6 | In the past , the young store cattle were sold after a few months to farmers on the UK mainland but recently the EEC has guaranteed high prices for beef and so many farmers have fattened their calves on their own farms . |
| 7 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 8 | Suspecting a mild heart attack , his doctor had him admitted to hospital but tests were negative and he was discharged after a few days . |
| 9 | This had no very radical consequences : it was dropped after a few years , Diodorus says ( xi.87 ) , because too many of the prominent citizens were thereby discouraged from engaging in political life . |
| 10 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 11 | The regiment 's first official title after the 1881 merger was The Halifax Regiment ( Duke of Wellington 's ) but this was changed after a few weeks to The Duke of Wellington 's ( West Riding Regiment ) and again in 1920 to The Duke of Wellington 's Regiment ( West Riding ) . |