Example sentences of "not long [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands . |
| 2 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 3 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 4 | That was not long after the Second World War broke out . |
| 5 | May I correct Mr MacLaren on one small historical point where he states that ‘ the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War ’ ? |
| 6 | Just a brief response to a small part of Iain MacLaren 's letter , where he refers to the Royal Navy abandoning hammocks not long after the Second World War . |
| 7 | I do not know how the RAF dealt with bed-wetters in the days of National Service , but I am certain that even although the Royal Navy had abandoned hammocks not long after the Second World War , a persistent enuretic on board a warship would create even more serious problems than he could in an army barracks . |