Example sentences of "a few [noun pl] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for the ICPC said the investigation into the death started early on Sunday morning , a few hours after the body of Gerald Maginn was found . |
| 2 | The first real indication of the mood of the new House came on Wednesday , 3 June 1992 , the day after the Danish ‘ no ’ vote and a few hours after the prime minister had told Parliament that he intended nevertheless to press ahead with the bill ratifying the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 3 | FOUR of the five gunmen who had been occupying the Nicaraguan embassy in San Jose , Costa Rica , for nearly two weeks left the country yesterday a few hours after the siege had ended peacefully . |
| 4 | But Springbok officials and security officers at the club gave a different version of the incident which occurred just a few hours after the team had arrived . |
| 5 | The last I saw of Angy was a few minutes after the class ended . |
| 6 | Charlie felt seasick only a few minutes after the English coast was out of sight . |
| 7 | When the head of the Commissioners , Sir Malcolm Trustram Eve , who was no man to be trifled with , arrived a few days after the Commissioners approved the expenditure , the butler Alexander showed him the restoration already complete . |
| 8 | The supermarkets get paid cash by the customer a few days after the goods arrive in their shops , while they pay their suppliers between one and two months after delivery . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ Mrs Peterson said , coming into the kitchen one morning a few days after the monthly nurse had left , ‘ you 'll be pleased to hear that the mistress has found a new servant at last . |
| 10 | Yet only a few days after the Wallabies had tucked the Cup safely away , as they thoroughly deserved to do , NZRFU officials were bustling about trying to find out what their players were up to . |
| 11 | A FEW DAYS after the master had forbidden Cathy to visit Linton , he asked my opinion of the boy . |
| 12 | I went back to the optician a few days after the lenses were fitted . |
| 13 | Mr Beechey , pictured here a few days after the body of his neighbour was discovered , said nothing during the hearing . |
| 14 | In fact , she did not realise she was to have the honour conferred on her for a few days after the letter arrived . |
| 15 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 16 | A few weeks after the technical group returned , a group of commercial and legal experts flew out to Russia . |
| 17 | Well back in September a few weeks after the quarry men first came out on strike a few of us went up to the picket line , a few of the women . |
| 18 | This gives a jumble of echoes that will sometimes persist for as much as a few seconds after the original sound has ceased . |
| 19 | But French TV pioneered the national exit poll , and the ‘ results ’ were revealed a few seconds after the last ballot slip was boxed . |
| 20 | A few months after the service started there was a tragedy when the young daughter of Mr. Whitehead , Headmaster of The Salisbury School ( now Chafyn Grove ) was killed as she ran behind the reversing bus from which she had just alighted . |
| 21 | In a private agreement made a few months after the treaty was concluded , Bruce restored Henry Percy 's Scottish lands and he is said to have promised to restore the lands of Henry Beaumont and Thomas Wake of Liddel . |
| 22 | Frohnmayer had been nominated by Bush in the summer of 1989 , a few months after the NEA controversy began with the popular outcry against its indirect support for ‘ Piss Christ ’ , Andrea Serrano 's photograph of a plastic crucifix submerged in a container of urine . |
| 23 | Her boyfriend , having disappeared during her pregnancy , returned and acted like a concerned father for a few months after the baby was born , even coming to live in Joanne 's house , but then left as suddenly as he had come , and all the family feel very bitter about this . |