Example sentences of "[v-ing] after a few [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , of course , it can work the other way round ; I recall a woman , going through a difficult time with her husband , returning after a few days ' holiday to find that he had swept and cleaned the house from top to bottom . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've never done this before have we , love , ’ Dan said , remembering after a few yards to change onto the correct side of the road . |
| 3 | It was nearly dark when we left Fontanellato and , with no lights about , it was hard to know where we were going after a few kilometres . |
| 4 | If the child shows a habit of prolonged crying then instead of expecting him or her to sit there for a long period of time , the first break in crying after a few minutes should be taken by the parent as an opportunity to allow the child to get up . |
| 5 | Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters . |
| 6 | I used Vichy 's Hip and Thigh Massage Cream and I could actually feel the nodules of fat cells disintegrating after a few weeks of applying the cream daily , and the improvement became more and more obvious as I continued . |
| 7 | The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode . |