Example sentences of "after [art] few [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strange , rank smell was stronger than ever and after a few moments they all heard a heavy movement close by . |
| 2 | After a few minutes they passed the first of the estate workers ' cottages , two storey , stone-built , and around three hundred years old . |
| 3 | At first chicks peck at both food and pebbles about equally , but after a few minutes they learn the difference and thereafter pick up the food and avoid the pebbles ( especially if the latter are glued to the floor ! ) . |
| 4 | After a few minutes they were half opened and a middle-aged woman came and sat on the chair by his bed . |
| 5 | After a few years they may find that not enough of their nature is being fulfilled . |
| 6 | However , after a few days they can normally be enticed to eat again , with either freeze-dried or live foods . |
| 7 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 8 | Derek Hegarty says it 's been tougher than they expected because the winds up in Scotland were very strong and after a few days they had troubles with their knees but they 've managed to keep going … |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Often clients think it 's a good idea to come here but after a few weeks they think it 's not such a good idea . |
| 11 | As it turned out , I was a dreadful croupier and after a few weeks they put me on coats and hats . |