Example sentences of "[adv] after a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Only after a few days ' exposure to New York sunlight did they readjust to local time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up . |
| 5 | So after a few words , he says , Oh well , right I 'll put you through as yard foreman from next week . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Cut it out , Maria , ’ he ordered her curtly after a few seconds in which he seemed to hold his breath . |
| 11 | People are more likely to come home after a few drinks , light a cigarette and then fall asleep , often with tragic consequences . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm f used to that now after a few years . |
| 15 | Even after a few minutes — even while the porter is still showing him to his room — Howard feels that he has understood a great deal about this city . |
| 16 | Even after a few beers , I am too shy to ask the reason . |
| 17 | For these reasons , and many more , no teenager returns home , even after a few months away , without having changed . |
| 18 | I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’ |
| 19 | Work ended abruptly after a few years — the builders did n't even bother to take their ladder away . |
| 20 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 21 | Then after a few minutes it all stops . |
| 22 | Golf Charlie Charlie , engine failure ’ , then after a few seconds ‘ Mayday ! |
| 23 | Gina started scanning the documents , then after a few seconds she gasped , |
| 24 | Finishing only , and er then after a few years the manufacturing side of the industry adopted the cost of living different from ours but they adopted a cost of living bonus in in a degree rather different from our . |
| 25 | That was , that was what the crew were getting four pound a week and course my father that time he done away with a cabin boy so I had to do more or less two jobs , see if I were n't working on deck I 'd go down and clean the cabins and that 's how , that 's how we kept the money going course then after a few years when they got to the finish about nineteen thirty one then the harbourmaster turned round and he ruc reduced our wages five shillings a week , so we were getting three pound fifteen a week . |
| 26 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
| 27 | Then after a few miles the engine stopped again . |
| 28 | Yet after a few weeks , during which time only parts of the north of England and the borders had risen on the Pretender 's behalf , the rebellion was put down . |
| 29 | Marcus told everything , reluctantly at first , but more freely after a few minutes . |
| 30 | The ball is kicked or thrown to the highlighted player either after a few seconds or when the fire button is pressed with the joystick i neutral . |