Example sentences of "that after a few [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing happened , except that after a few minutes I checked that no one had come into the room to observe such antics ! |
| 2 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |
| 3 | The resultant online , interactive database is designed to be so easy to use that after a few minutes practice even novices can make very sophisticated searches and will have nearly instantaneous access to a vast storehouse of information hitherto accessible only after tedious , time-consuming and costly searches through individual issues . |
| 4 | If you have an odd number of needles , you end up knitting the same needles on every row , so that after a few rows the carriage jams . |
| 5 | It was followed by a silence so fraught with regret on Luce 's part that after a few seconds she had to admit the truth . |
| 6 | I 've found that after a few years experience you can tell , you just can you know ; which even if you 've got a group with two very imaginative kids in , who can play instruments really well , and the others sit back and let them do it , then you might give the difference between two out of ten and nine out of ten for effort in the same group , but for the overall effect they would then get the same mark for the group thing . |
| 7 | I did n't think that after a few years I would end up doing both ! ’ |
| 8 | The guards knew full well what was happening and we knew that after a few days they were likely to get heavy about it . |
| 9 | Part of him wants to get back to the security of home but he knows that after a few weeks there he might long for the contacts , communication and craziness of the multi-media scheme . |
| 10 | James faced such intractable problems that after a few months he nearly quit . |