Example sentences of "[vb pp] after a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like domestic Guinea Pigs , the young are born well developed after a long gestation period of four months — covered in fur and with eyes open , they run around the mother soon after birth . |
| 2 | Quasi-periodic solutions were found at sufficiently small a , and chaotic solutions developed after a sequence of period doublings as f is increased when a = 0.05 ( see Fig. 2.23 ) . |
| 3 | My patient presented in March 1991 with a raised red lesion on the back of her leg , which she believed had developed after an insect bite on holiday in Malta in 1990 . |
| 4 | In the early stages of the disease sufferer from alcoholism may be still waiting for the " real " party to start when everyone else is already intoxicated after a much smaller intake . |
| 5 | It is a poor house Ellen and not clean but it is cheap and furnished after a fashion and best of all lies next to the Casa Guidi which raised my spirits . |
| 6 | Gower was sacked after a disastrous Test series against Australia and axed from the winter tour to the West Indies . |
| 7 | Peacock was sacked after a year , and other staff followed . |
| 8 | Sarah told her that John had secured a job in an hotel but had been sacked after a few days . |
| 9 | ‘ It was the same when he got that job on a building site and was sacked after a few days , although they said there was nothing wrong with his work . |
| 10 | Gould was sacked after a stormy 14 months following Albion 's failure to at least make the Third Division promotion play-offs . |
| 11 | But treated after a diverse fashion , |
| 12 | Hence , the backlash to which so many poor devils have been exposed after a premature elevation to megastardom . |
| 13 | Exposed after a bigamous marriage in New York in 1885 , he changed his name to its final form and enlisted with Thorsten Nordenfelt , the London-based Swedish inventor of a quick-firing gun and an unseaworthy submarine . |
| 14 | Although early day weakness among the leaders , inspired by profit takers , evaporated after a series of small ‘ buy side ’ programme trades , generate any genuine investment interest was poor . |
| 15 | A TV show featuring sexy home videos was halted after a flood of viewers ' complaints in Sydney , Australia . |
| 16 | It was only halted after a massive nationwide media campaign orchestrated by conservationists , but nearly every year Arizona congressional representatives push for a dam to be built at mile 238 , which would inundate most of the lower Grand Canyon . |
| 17 | The flow of oil was for the most part halted after a few days when US aircraft bombed the pumping manifold stations . |
| 18 | Plans to develop Penang Hill , an isolated patch of forest on one of Malaysia 's most densely-populated islands , has been halted after a protest campaign . |
| 19 | It has been formed after a year-long management and brand analysis of Seagram 's global brands . |
| 20 | The low-lying helmet streamer , lower right , was formed after a prominence eruption and coronal mass ejection . |
| 21 | Reid was repulsed after a bitter inter-union struggle , was charged and found guilty of disorderly conduct and eventually ejected from his office as branch secretary . |
| 22 | The typical applicant to the tribunal is a male , middle-aged , non-union manual worker dismissed after a relatively short period of service . |
| 23 | Keith Atkinson 's case against a health authority was dismissed after a six year legal battle . |
| 24 | He replaces Bill McLaren , dismissed after a season . |
| 25 | Franlow maintains Mrs Taylor was dismissed after a long-running dispute with the manageress . |
| 26 | Gray and his assistant Tony McAndrew were dismissed after an 8am board meeting yesterday . |
| 27 | Engineers already knew this , just as we know that the refrigerator will not work if it is not plugged in ; but Carnot 's achievement , when recognized after a quarter of a century , allowed theoretical understanding and in the end further advance in practice . |
| 28 | Baxter 's right shinbone was broken after a clash with Rapide Vienna 's tough centre-half Skocik . |
| 29 | Only last September every frame of Rupert Bear 's new animated TV series had to be minutely examined after a Canadian animator decided to liven up Rupert 's life . |
| 30 | By the end of the second day the visitors had reached 239 for 7 , only Gomes and Lloyd making an impression as Allott , recalled after a two-year absence , headed for his best Test return or 6 for 61 . |