Example sentences of "a few [noun] after [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
| 2 | The harvested roots are bulky and heavy to transport and they must be crushed within a few hours after harvest to avoid loss of the sugary Juice . |
| 3 | A few hours after death a two-tone bream reverts to one colour , the lighter shade . |
| 4 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
| 5 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
| 6 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
| 7 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
| 8 | I could train birds on the bitter bead , shock them , either immediately or a few minutes after training , and compare the biochemistry in the birds which had tasted the bead but forgotten the association with that in the birds which had tasted and remembered the bead . |
| 9 | It is a social ritual , somewhat akin to a few drinks after work . |
| 10 | If the baby 's fed on water or for some reason does not take food normally , you may not find the problem , but a few days after milk feed this substance will begin to rise and it can be protected so the diagnosis is made by a test , does anybody know how the Guffbry test is done ? |
| 11 | Its cochlea , that vital , snail-shaped organ in the inner ear , will have started to degenerate a few days after birth , and the deterioration is completely irreversible . |
| 12 | Uterine contractions continue for a few days after birth ( they are often particularly evident when the child begins to suck at the nipple ) . |
| 13 | Generally , women become familiar quickly with the scent of their infants , and can recognise their baby by smell alone only a few days after birth . |
| 14 | In fact , most damage to breast shape happens during their often rapid growth during pregnancy , then when filling with milk a few days after birth . |
| 15 | Our elder daughter , a budding journalist , had her birthday a few days after Easter Day , so we seemed to be stuffed with Simnel cake and birthday cake and chocolate eggs . |
| 16 | It was a not unreasonable assumption that a man who developed a discharge a few days after intercourse followed by a chancre some weeks later , without further exposure , was suffering from separate stages of the same infection . |
| 17 | The only problem occurred a few days after launch , when one of the sun sensors produced occasional false readings and shut down the satellite . |
| 18 | This is total rubbish , as if the body is to be buried or cremated within a few days after death , no such risk exists . |
| 19 | One year , a few days after Christmas , I was walking in the Slieve Muck area . |
| 20 | A few years after publication I was introduced to a well known photographer at a party . |
| 21 | Experimental studies have also demonstrated that young babies can separate a continuous stream of speech sounds into discrete phonetic units and that they are sensitive to phonemic changes — for example , the difference between/p/ and/d/ — only a few weeks after birth ( Eimas et al . |
| 22 | One day , a few weeks after Granny 's funeral , Mary came home earlier than usual from work . |
| 23 | A few weeks after infection with several hundred L3 a clinical syndrome of fever , inappetence and dullness occurs sometimes accompanied by colic . |
| 24 | The national competition successes come just a few weeks after site newsletter Risley News was voted the north 's Newsletter of the Year at the Guardian Editing Awards , staged by the Northern region of the BAIE in Manchester . |
| 25 | Ian Dair , who led the writing of the book for the NCC , was quite chuffed a few months after publication when the American Association of Golf Course Architects requested a copy . |
| 26 | This inherited , natural , passive ( the baby has not produced it ) immunity to , for example , measles and whooping cough usually lasts only for a few months after birth . |
| 27 | ‘ Ideally we would like to go back to a site a few months after installation , for a meeting with senior management to show them how they can take advantage of the system , ’ Chudley says . |
| 28 | It is possible for the advanced stage to supervene a few months after infection , but it would normally take ten or fifteen years to develop . |
| 29 | However , in February 1925 , only a few months after entry to the rue d'Ulm , he was suffering from nervous depression and planned a trip to a Swiss sanatorium . |