Example sentences of "after [art] few [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Hari had remained in the cemetery long after the few neighbours who had attended Win Morgan 's funeral had gone .
2 I slept well after a few pints of Sussex Devil at the local , and woke up to find my caddie famous . ’
3 ‘ You 'll have to excuse me husband , ’ she says , ‘ he get 's a bit borin' after a few pints . ’
4 With all that , a player 's bag can feel like a ton after a few bogeys !
5 We keep open house here and they can come and go as they please before settling down , as many do , after a few attempts .
6 After a few attempts it will drive as normal .
7 After a few attempts I found I was turning like Robby Naish for the first part of the turn , then falling in on the inside of the turn .
8 After a few attempts at checking myself by thinking of Hattie Jacques and Eric Sykes riding a tandem , I found myself back at the doctor .
9 After a few attempts , which often result in catching the ball off the toe , the player begins to feel how necessary it is to turn away fully in the backswing and to bring the club down on the correct path .
10 But I had to keep stopping to peer at the pages , so after a few attempts I gave up .
11 After a few glasses of the local ‘ dark and stormy ’ cocktail — a mixture of rum and ginger beer — the new Governor might agree with the poet Andrew Marvell who wrote of eternal spring in ‘ an isle so long unknown and yet far kinder than our own ’ .
12 In any case , it does not detract from my central theme that ‘ traditional ’ chemistry is brought alive by anecdotes and can be great fun , a feat that modern chemistry simply can not match except perhaps in the case of hydroxyethane ( ethanol ) , after a few glasses of which , who cares anyway ?
13 But , with the Christmas party season in full swing , revellers are warned to stop after a few glasses .
14 But after a few notes she stopped and turned round on her stool to face me .
15 Ken Neil won the competition on ‘ how many ways to use an egg ’ and , after a few games of bingo , the 50 members enjoyed browsing around the Thrift Shop which had been opened specially because many can not get there on a Wednesday morning .
16 ‘ Mm , that 's better ! ’ she said after a few mouthfuls .
17 I thought after a few times she 'll stop and she 'll accept it .
18 Take particular note of every spot you see a bream roll , and after a few visits you will be able to form an accurate picture of where , how long , and what pattern the route forms .
19 After a few hours ' walking along the ridge we could clearly see Koitobos , one of the peaks surrounding the crater rim — a long , flat-topped buttress with a steep cone at one end , composed of large , dark brown , vertical columns .
20 After a few hours ' rest I had something to eat .
21 It was sad to think that they had waited so long in England for this invasion of their homeland and after a few hours ashore so many of them had been killed or wounded , the dead now lying in a temporary grave in the corner of a Normandy orchard .
22 The first photoelectrochemical cells also had low efficiencies and stopped working after a few hours — this time due to light-induced erosion of the semiconducting electrode .
23 After a few hours in there the two women became ‘ as quiet and inoffensive beings , as ever breathed ’ .
24 After a few hours the butterflies can be released .
25 But after a few hours it became hard to disguise .
26 or 3,500 MN/m 2 after a few hours .
27 After a few hours a rustling noise nearly shocked me off my boulder .
28 staining first appears in r3 ( a ) and after a few hours is joined by staining in r5 ( b ) .
29 After a few hours in this the home of Johannes Gutenberg ( he invented the printing press ) , the cruise heads upstream to Speyer for 8.00pm arrival .
30 Some stopped dividing after a few hours and remained generalised in form and in dense clusters .
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