Example sentences of "[art] few [noun pl] after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 2 | Every sunset the apes would return from their day 's foraging to sleep in the branches of this giant tree , and we were driven to distraction by our repeated attempts to film them properly in the few seconds after they arrived and before the sun set . |
| 3 | A bystander at his creation , or rather arriving a few moments after it , would feel justified in assuming that Adam had had a mother , been born and brought up in the usual way , and was in every way like us ; but he would be wrong . |
| 4 | And in the mid-afternoon , only a few hours after they had arrived back at the apartment , an urgent message had come through for Ross by fax . |
| 5 | Merseyside police have revealed that they probably killed James a few hours after they took him from the Strand shopping centre in Bootle . |
| 6 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is no certain way of knowing of food is dangerous … until a few hours after it is eaten . |
| 8 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 9 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 10 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 11 | Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted . |
| 12 | The message probably arrived a few minutes after we left . |
| 13 | Miss Bedwelty arrived a few minutes after they did and they all piled into the factory . |
| 14 | A few minutes after they drove away there was a knock at the front door . |
| 15 | A few minutes after they started again a movement out on the plain caught Nathaniel Sherman 's eye . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ A few minutes after I had told him I was n't going on , a gang of his thugs suddenly appeared and pointed machine-guns at us and ordered us to get up on stage . |
| 18 | I 'll be able to model your gown ; it 's right at the end of the show , so I 'll have a few minutes after I 've finished Roman 's clothes . ’ |
| 19 | Your presence may help to concentrate its mind , however , and you can establish a routine whereby it can run around and play for a few minutes after it has performed as desired . |
| 20 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 21 | For a few minutes after he came in , the rats were quiet . |
| 22 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 23 | His wife received the official notification from the Air Ministry a few days after they had celebrated their first anniversary of their wedding . |
| 24 | A few days after they had learnt that Haroun was the illegitimate son of Jazali an extraordinary thing had happened . |
| 25 | The emerging feelings bubbled to the surface in the unlikely setting of the Route 66 pub in Darlington on Friday , February 7 just a few days after they met . |
| 26 | Kirstie , 38 , who miscarried a Down 's Syndrome baby two years ago , was handed William just a few days after he was born in October . |
| 27 | A few days after he mailed it , he telephoned his friend and colleague at Aphrodisias , in Anatolia , and called off his visit . |
| 28 | But today the prostate operation is routine , as I discovered when I visited the operating theatre a few days after I had had mine . |
| 29 | Then , a few days after I got back from Oxford , I got a telegram to say I had a scholarship . |
| 30 | ‘ However I wanted to race in Ireland and I was frustrated when the Lisburn club came back to me a few days after I had signed up for the French meeting and gave me the full details . |