Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] a few [noun pl] after " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doorbell rang a few minutes after she had opened the lid of her case and returned downstairs to make herself a cup of tea . |
| 2 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 3 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 4 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 5 | I was adopted when my own mother died a few days after I was born . |