Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] after [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The COS became the Family Welfare Association shortly after the Second World War and its functions have widened in scope as the need for basic relief has been reduced by the growth of statutory income maintenance services . |
| 2 | Sam took Nutty and her team up in the car straight after the last lesson ; Nails had not been around which was just as well as the car did not hold more than five . |
| 3 | Barely eighteen months ago after the last time , what are we doing ? |
| 4 | Geoffrey Wilkinson 's deputy was Peter Bardon who joined the RAF soon after the Second World War and served all over the world , particularly in the Far East . |
| 5 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 6 | Now for the second in our series looking at life in rural England just after the Second World War . |
| 7 | We were perhaps closest in the two winters immediately after the first rebel tour to South Africa in 1982 , when we both signed to play for Western Province while serving our Test bans . |
| 8 | For example , in Britain , a ‘ stillbirth ’ is defined to take place only after the 28th week of pregnancy ; in the USA , the borderline is the 20th week . |
| 9 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 10 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 11 | The fifteen hundred men who had set off north from the Forth directly after the first struggle with Siward and who must be less than two hours away at this moment , marching up Strathallan by the way he had come himself , passing Dunblane and Forteviot . |
| 12 | In the years immediately after the Second World War , the particular concerns of old age became a subject for serious social investigation for the first time . |
| 13 | The balance of payments in the period immediately after the Second World War can not be treated as a simple economic constraint , imposing inescapable policy responses . |
| 14 | In the period immediately after the Second World War' sweeping changes affected the staff in Scotland . |
| 15 | Thus , in contrast with current policies , in the period immediately after the Second World War people of retirement age were urged not to retire and to ‘ sink into premature old age ’ , but to work a little longer and , therefore , have ‘ a happier and healthier old age' ( Phillipson 1982 : 33 ) . |
| 16 | Crucially , Realism provided a justification for the kind of foreign policy which the leaders of the USA felt that they had to undertake in the period immediately after the Second World War . |
| 17 | Most social and political theories formulated in the period immediately after the Second World War tended to view the industrialised societies of the West as set on a path of continuous economic and social development . |
| 18 | The owners were first given permission to quarry the area just after the second world war — with no legal restrictions on their activity . |
| 19 | Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War . |
| 20 | One group was reinforced with food after each trial , a second group was never reinforced , and a third was given a reinforcement only after the eleventh day . |
| 21 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 22 | Written by Richards while he was working in Cairo shortly after the Second World War , these sentences form one of the most delightful , and distinctive , opening passages to any book published this century . |
| 23 | Similarly , if someone changed their address , we would just write the name and the new address immediately after the last entry in the book and change the start position in the index . |
| 24 | To Catholics raised in the church immediately after the Second World War , as North was , Communism was the all-too-apparent enemy , the work of the devil . |
| 25 | He card-indexed half a million radicals just after the First World War , sent agents to intimidate newspapers which dared suggest , in the Thirties , that the banks were not entirely sound , arrested fighters in the Spanish Civil War long after the war was done . |
| 26 | Anyone investing £1,000 in the average investment trust just after the second world war would now have a holding worth well over Pounds 250,000 . |
| 27 | Morgenthau 's science of international politics reflected three factors historically specific to the USA just after the Second World War . |
| 28 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 29 | He was widely believed to have been interned in a labour camp in the mid-1930s ( a fate shared by the greater part of the clergy ) , and again for a year immediately after the Second World War , following military service . |
| 30 | José 's parents died in the influenza epidemic just after the First World War . |