Example sentences of "after [art] few [noun pl] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a few minutes had passed a loud scream was heard , for it was an electric oven ; and Alf , with singed hair , ran out of the house , down the street and round the corner where he vaulted the Embankment wall , intending to drown himself in the river but forgetting that it was a low tide . |
| 2 | ‘ Where 's Prescott ? ’ asked Trentham after a few minutes had passed . |
| 3 | A clear run of four hundred yards was obtained after a few holes had been filled in . |
| 4 | After a few days had passed , an old woman was walking from the Doon bridge into Alloway village and passing the partially ruined Kirk Alloway , when she heard a loud bellowing sound coming from the church . |
| 5 | Jeff , who drove a lead car , explained : ‘ We knew there was a building site there and after a few dollars had changed hands the construction workers used one of their cranes to transfer the three-and-a-halfton generator . ’ |