Example sentences of "[noun prp] a few [noun pl] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush emphasized that he still hoped to avert war , and that a meeting could still go ahead in Baghdad between US Secretary of State James Baker and President Saddam Hussein a few days after Jan. 3 . |
| 2 | He was to give him a part which would take him into the West End a few months after leaving school , write a special role for him in what would be his first film , introduce him to his future wife and , through one of his sons , Brook , provide him with a lifelong younger ‘ brother ’ . |
| 3 | When d'Argenlieu dispatched himself hastily to Paris a few days after the French elections and before the Haiphong incident , it was to lobby intensively for a policy of firmness ; and his tactic , says Devillers , was simple : to create fear . |
| 4 | Certainly , Jacques passed on Green 's approbation of Barker 's attitude to Hampden Jackson and Douglas-Smith a few days after the late February meeting : |
| 5 | So if doctors find concentrations of HPD a few days after the injection , they know there are tumours there . |
| 6 | Bruce meanwhile had launched a lightning raid into north-west England , and after burning Lancaster he crossed into the North Riding of Yorkshire and almost succeeded in capturing Edward himself near Byland Abbey , This humiliation of the king proved too much for Andrew Harclay , whose support had been of crucial importance at Boroughbridge and who had been raised to the earldom of Carlisle a few days after the battle . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Queen Mother took the reverse stoically , writing to Cazalet a few days after the Grand National : ‘ We will not be done in by this , and will just keep on trying . ’ |