Example sentences of "a couple of [noun] after [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was that brand of challenge by Darren Peacock in the fifth minute that damaged Shearer 's ankle , though he struggled on before succumbing a couple of minutes after the interval . |
| 2 | As a man of action — as he never tired of telling people — he had stuck his multi-million-pound Granny Bond idea together on the back of an envelope in a couple of hours after the introduction of Budget changes which made it possible . |
| 3 | A couple of weeks after the arrests , a lawyer in the Belfast office of the Treasury Solicitor was drawing up charges on the basis of the presence of the pistol when a senior police official ordered him to prepare fresh indictments charging them with murdering three specified Roman Catholics . |
| 4 | To gain the desired bronze , we often endure burnt shoulders and peeling noses , only to find that the colour fades all too quickly , often a couple of weeks after the holiday . |
| 5 | This case followed a couple of weeks after the extensive coverage given to the case where a teacher was accused of raping a 15-year-old pupil but who was eventually jailed for unlawful sexual intercourse . |
| 6 | Now , a couple of years after a huge hit , ‘ Natural Thing ’ , they return to little acclaim . |
| 7 | ‘ He died a couple of years after the end of the project . ’ |
| 8 | For US T-bonds the situation looked a little more optimistic for a couple of years after the launch , but the volume of contracts traded has fallen steeply since 1988 although there has been no such decline in their home base on the CBoT , and despite the fact that LIFFE invested much effort in internationalising this contract — establishing a fungible link with the Sydney Futures Exchange ( SFE ) in 1986 to allow global trading in US T-bonds for 19 hours a day , and reaching an understanding with the CBoT for fungible contracts in the US T-bond and the UK Long Gilt . |
| 9 | Well I reckon she lived er a couple of years after the stroke Gordon . |
| 10 | I flew into the monastery by helicopter just a couple of days after the fire and it was still smouldering . |
| 11 | It went off only a couple of days after the meeting . |
| 12 | Rather than the last meeting , it was just a couple of days after the last meeting , so rather than wait until now , I circulated all the papers I 'd got . |
| 13 | On September 11 , only a couple of months after the 25th anniversary of the last steam from this famous terminus , Taw Valley will go yet again into preservation history with ‘ The Bournemouth Ltd ’ which she will haul from Waterloo to Bournemouth throughout . |
| 14 | The play ended in January 1964 , just a couple of months after the opening . |