Example sentences of "a [adj] hours after [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Mother and baby get to know each other a few hours after birth … but for some mothers its a felling they can not appreciate … |
2 | The harvested roots are bulky and heavy to transport and they must be crushed within a few hours after harvest to avoid loss of the sugary Juice . |
3 | The figures are published on a day when arsonists destroyed part of a shopping centre just a few hours after thieves stealing television sets had also tried to start a fire . |
4 | A few hours after death a two-tone bream reverts to one colour , the lighter shade . |
5 | Benjamin and I left Royston in the last week of November , when the days grew dark early and the sun disappeared a few hours after noon . |
6 | So that he could find out just what environmental factors decide where and when individuals hunt for insect food , Jens Rydell , of the University of Lund in Sweden , drove once or twice a week along a 27km route through the countryside , in the south of Sweden , starting a few hours after sunset . |
7 | When your sort of body 's running down anyway , you know it 's it 's a few hours after dinner time , it 's not quite time to go home from work . |
8 | On the evening of 13 May , only a few hours after Macmillan 's departure a visitor arrived at 5 Corps headquarters at Klagenfurt . |
9 | It has previously been shown that infiltration of lymphocytes in the submucosa occurs within only a few hours after gliadin challenge . |
10 | Lumbar puncture , performed three and a half hours after admission , showed turbid cerebrospinal fluid containing 1500 white cells/µl ( 100% polymorphs ) , protein 5.7 g/l ( normal 0.15–0.45 g/l ) , and glucose 1.2 mmol/l . |
11 | Three and a half hours after noon , he was close enough to the Earn to hear the shouting and deduce that the army landed that morning at Levenmouth had completed its march northwards through Fife and even its struggle , harassed by Tuathal , through the defile of Glen Farg , and was now here , on one side or the other of the Earn crossing . |