Example sentences of "after [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After perhaps a quarter of an hour she would rise again and return to her books , as though satisfied that all was in its place . |
| 2 | After only a minute of play or painting or whatever he should have been doing , he would leave his place , then snatch toys , kick children , overturn furniture and try to run out of the nursery . |
| 3 | In fact they needed little breaking in and after only a couple of long walks they were very comfortable indeed . |
| 4 | Two watch-worthy Frenchmen , Jean-Noel Pariente , 30 , and Lionel Fainfray , 29 , whose Arthur brand of men 's underpants sells 800,000 pairs in France after only a couple of years in existence , are preparing a charge into the UK market . |
| 5 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 6 | She certainly is , after only a couple of circuits her confidence is growing . |
| 7 | After only a couple of days , comprising mainly insults and bickering , she had n't felt as if they were strangers . |
| 8 | After only a week of filming his third American film , Kidnapped , in 1937 , he was fired by Darryl F Zanuck after an argument , and Zanuck saw to it that Preminger was virtually blacklisted . |
| 9 | After only a week of this treatment complex molecules were found to have formed in the mixture , including sugars , nucleic acids and amino acids , the building blocks of proteins . |
| 10 | ‘ But then the team suffered a run of injuries and after only a handful of matches I was back on the field . ’ |
| 11 | Having a factory bike can put a lot of pressure on you but when after just a couple of races you discover you can compete at the highest level , everything gets easier . |
| 12 | After just a week of stroking , Brussels sprouts infested with aphids showed an ability to reduce the pests ' multiplication rate . |
| 13 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 14 | After nearly a century of fruitless experimentation Caledor managed to divine the cause of the Chaos Invasion and devise a desperate plan for containing it . |
| 15 | In spite of his great strength , after nearly a year of marriage she was still surprised and touched by his gentleness . |
| 16 | Despite such setbacks , the Germans continued their infantry frontal attacks with supporting parachute infantry outflanking Allied positions , and after nearly a month of confused fighting the Independent Companies were withdrawn through Bodö along with elements of the 24th Guards Brigade and Norwegian troops . |
| 17 | After about a quarter of a mile the track emerges onto more open land dotted with trees , and you can find some lovely juniper bushes here . |
| 18 | The neutron production rate appeared to rise after about an hour of electrolysis and then dropped dramatically after eight hours . |
| 19 | After almost a year of dispute , mass picketing began in June 1977 . |
| 20 | Gradually they gained the upper hand and after almost a week of savage fighting the Germans began to fall back . |
| 21 | After around a quarter of a mile , look back to see the outline of a Romano-British settlement . |
| 22 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 23 | Paul Taylor 's left-arm pace could be valuable at Calcutta , where the ball tends to swing , but for him to play in the first Test after barely a month of his first trip overseas would be a gamble . |