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Could you please tell me the difference in nuance between the two sentences below?

A. It began to snow twenty minutes after we had arrived at school.
B. It began to snow twenty minutes after we arrived at school.

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There's not much nuance. The past perfect (had arrived) is used for an event that happened before another event in the past. But people don't use it much in speaking. It's mostly used in very formal, academic writing, which is not what your sentence is.
やっぱりこの場合はIt began to snow twenty minutes after we arrived at school. の方がnaturalみたいだね。
早く俺に追いつくといいね。頑張れ。