Example sentences of "a [det] [noun pl] later the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when a few moments later the telephone goes , and the gas man says that he wo n't after all be coming today to service the boiler , he gets his head bitten off ! |
| 2 | A few moments later the other followed . |
| 3 | A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust , heading down towards the charcoal city . |
| 4 | A few hours later the verdict was in . |
| 5 | The sight of a photograph of a cancerous lung causes me to shrink with disgust from the very thought of smoking ; a few hours later the physical craving revives , obliterates the memory , and causes me to smoke again . |
| 6 | A few hours later the carrack was proceeding slowly up the narrow entrance to the Tagus between St Julian 's Fort and the sandbanks where the long Atlantic swell was making a dazzling white line of roaring surf . |
| 7 | A few hours later the family were driving back to Windsor . |
| 8 | A few minutes later the train arrived in Duisburg and we got out . |
| 9 | He goes on to remark that a few minutes later the same antlers could be in use with the animals full weight behind them as they slash and batter those of an opposing stag . |
| 10 | A few minutes later the elderly owner of ‘ Primrose Cottage ’ was on the phone . |
| 11 | A few minutes later the very same Mrs Fm turns up . |
| 12 | A few minutes later the rabbits had crossed the cart-track and vanished into the copse beyond . |
| 13 | A few minutes later the Doctor had reached the valley . |
| 14 | A few minutes later the ship saw us and turned . |
| 15 | A few minutes later the spaceship landed and I was home . |
| 16 | A few minutes later the spaceship was falling towards a planet covered with tall buildings . |
| 17 | To her surprise a few minutes later the taxi pulled up outside a fashion shop in one of the main city streets as the driver indicated she had reached her destination . |
| 18 | A few minutes later the lights went out . |
| 19 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 20 | A few minutes later the company sergeant-major marched out of the tent to collect him . |
| 21 | A few days later the emergency evacuation of civilians from Suez to within the camp 's barbed wire perimeter fence began . |
| 22 | A few days later the doe was seen in the company of her mother and twin sister . |
| 23 | A few days later the national press carried the headlines that the UM plants in the Midlands had now been made idle as a consequence of the Merseyside strike . |
| 24 | A few days later the previous owners sent her pedigree and a short letter , explaining that their grandchildren were to blame for Sorrel 's temper . |
| 25 | A few days later the Avon and Somerset Police organized a large raid in the St Paul 's district of Bristol . |
| 26 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
| 27 | A few days later the call came for general mobilisation . |
| 28 | A few days later the father told a project worker , ‘ You know that was the first time I felt I had something to offer to the school . ’ |
| 29 | A few days later the Troop were shown aerial photographs of five tugs towing the sinking ship towards a sandbank , where she settled with her cargo of 5,000 tons of copper . |
| 30 | A few days later the few uneven patches were shaped up with a second mowing , with the greatest of ease . |