Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] after the first [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War .
2 And come to think of it why did n't he find himself another caddie after the first round ? ’
3 Earlier in the day the spokesman had forecast that talks of some form could take place this week after the first week of the strike produced nothing in the way of dialogue .
4 ‘ The danger is that our military could develop the syndrome of the German army after the first world war . ’
5 They had been old German hulks you know ta brought over to this country after the First World War as part of the reparations and they had been finished off in Liverpool and Glasgow somewhere .
6 Castlereagh captain Lisa Bell led her team to a 3–2 lead after the first quarter but Fermanagh , coached by former Irish Olympic canoeist Ann Cairns , pulled level to 5-all at half time .
7 Gen. Kassem asserted that Kuwait had been an integral component of the southern Iraqi province of Basra under Ottoman rule and that Iraq had succeeded to Turkish territorial sovereignty over Basra with the dissolution of the Ottoman empire after the First World War .
8 NICK FALDO overcame the desert wind and heat to fire a three-under-par 69 for a one-stroke lead after the first round of the Million Dollar Challenge here yesterday .
9 Furthermore , if you give a second pulse , a short period after the first pulse , you fail to elicit a large sodium current .
10 Consider Czech art , which might be said to have existed only since the beginning of the Czechoslovak state after the first World War .
11 PGA champion Nick Price posted five birdies in a six-hole stretch to take a one-shot lead after the first round in the Grand Slam of Golf at the PGA West yesterday .
12 One week after the first raid on Exeter , the Germans returned in force , and devastated the centre of Exeter .
13 Britain 's Malcolm Wilson , who was in seventh position after the first day , went off the road during the 17th stage .
14 Could any one house be sufficiently interesting to fulfil this dual role after the first flush of passion passed ?
15 Each one could have removed his or her name at any time after the first printing and , indeed , two did .
16 Yet the same forces and influences on society which saw the emergence of the Die-hards as the main force of the radical right after the First World War also saw more extremist reactions from a small but significant group who thought like Banister , and who were prepared to use Burton 's supposed evidence .
17 It was answered at the other end after the first ring by a friendly , but formal , female voice .
18 This was of course extremely generous , but he extended his generosity to no other local saint after the first archbishop St Augustine , whom he could never have excluded .
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