Example sentences of "few [noun pl] after [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes after eight , as they watched , a black flag moved slowly up the post . |
| 2 | When Sarella pushed open the big old doors of the refectory a few minutes after eight she found the high-domed room beyond her deserted . |
| 3 | A few minutes after twelve o'clock I reported to the police station . |
| 4 | The Soiree on 23rd December 1869 took place in one of the distillery lofts " a few minutes after six o'clock when the hall was completely crowded , upwards of 600 persons being present . " |
| 5 | ‘ He thinks it was a few minutes after six . ’ |
| 6 | The video shop did n't open up until a few minutes after ten . |
| 7 | Herringman bought few copyrights after 1678 , concentrating instead on republishing popular literary works and bringing out collected editions — Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher [ qq.v. ] in 1679 , Shakespeare in 1685 , Jonson in 1692 . |
| 8 | Even so , it took ‘ Ramshackle Mac ’ ( a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry ) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness . |
| 9 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |
| 10 | In the few years after 1958 a new word ( and , underlying it , a new fear ) took root : the meritocracy . |
| 11 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |