Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rose this morning after a few days of calm without mystical experience and I walked through a steep valley in a golden light of dawn that was like a rich but transparent garment covering all things . |
| 2 | Just as the IRA is under enormous public pressure after the dreadful scenes at Warrington , loyalist gunmen have besmirched yet again the image of Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | There had been virtually no further expansion after the fifty years of extraordinary growth in the first half of the sixteenth century . |
| 4 | Some spread after the last glaciations , others have been there longer after surviving the glacial periods in ice-free refugia ( Lindsey , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | One compositor , Jean Henderson whose daughter kindly provided me with information , went into the trade ( in the 1890s , that is some time after the earliest entrants ) straight from the Dean Orphanage , where she had received a good education ( see Plate 1 ) . |
| 6 | The figures are inevitably distorted by the fact that several of the great old grammar schools opted to join the private sector after the Labour governments ' reform of secondary education in the 1970s , but of the twenty-two schools attended by Cabinet ministers , eighteen belonged to the 1990 Headmasters ' Conference . |
| 7 | It has to be understood that the enormous 1982 crop was a welcome relief after the miserly vintages of 1978 , 1980 and 1981 . |
| 8 | The first and more important reason is that he is likely to be transferred out of Bull within the next few months , along with other chief executives at state-owned companies , when the rightist coalition almost inevitably takes over the government from the Socialist Party after the legislative elections this month . |
| 9 | Even putting by a relatively small sum on a regular basis can lead to a healthy nest-egg after a few years . |
| 10 | The same considerations of ideological convergence in broad terms and participation in public controversy encouraged the development of antislavery argument after the Napoleonic Wars in directions only lightly indicated in the early stages of the anti-slave trade argument . |
| 11 | It will be shown below that when one does this a semantic explanation for the use of the bare infinitive after the modal auxiliaries is possible and that this use is perfectly consistent with all the other uses of the bare form in English . |
| 12 | His final words were that she needed a nice long holiday after a few days in bed . |
| 13 | If a decision can be made about a partial solution after every three words , say , then a search space with two words at every choice point could be searched with paths instead of paths , an exponential saving . |
| 14 | Just as Unionists had rejected an Irish compromise in 1914 after years of commitment to Ulster , so they could not envisage anything short of total victory after the national sacrifices since 1914 . |
| 15 | Inspired by Darwin 's cousin , Francis Galton ( 1822–1911 ) , the biometricians sought to provide hard evidence that a population subjected to selection pressure exhibited a measurable difference after a few generations . |
| 16 | She was much more fun after a few drinks , gently mocking her dedication to saving this planet . |
| 17 | But there is a world of difference between these patients , discharged carefully to a community hostel , and those sent out at short notice after a few months in an acute psychiatric ward . |
| 18 | She was referred back to the medical clinic after a few months with the same clinical findings . |
| 19 | He did not marry again until much later , when he was coming back to political life after the economic changes of 1962 , which made the shipping more important . |
| 20 | In the first three years of a Service 's Long-Term Costing after the actual estimates year , there seems to be a bow-wave of requirements that can not be fitted into the programme . |
| 21 | A BRITISH tourist was repeatedly raped on a South African beach , just one week after the savage murders of Elizabeth Over and Julie Godwin . |
| 22 | At first I was too busy to see any change in myself , but one morning after a few weeks our flight was coming to the end of a five-mile run . |
| 23 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 24 | This usually clears up of its own accord after a few days — thereafter the person has no symptoms but may remain infectious . |
| 25 | It can not therefore have failed to become an important centre in its own right after the administrative changes introduced in the fourth century and it may have been promoted to the rank of civitas capital , although there is no evidence for the civitas over which it would have ruled . |
| 26 | ( also known as the Flavian Amphitheatre after the Flavian Emperors Vespasian , Titus and Domitian under whose auspices it was built ) . |
| 27 | ‘ Life in Christ ’ and hope in another world bring ease and refinement into a mere struggle for existence , calming the restless craving after the good things of this world by an ‘ other worldliness ’ and making failure a ‘ means of grace ’ instead of a despicable want of success |
| 28 | It may be that Chilperic 's death came to be seen in a new light after the Burgundian wars of the 520s and 530s . |
| 29 | You lose it , and you 've got the option to take out a new plan after the five years . |
| 30 | He was also a builder and developer of culture , and worked endlessly to set Germany upon a firm governmental and financial footing after the internal struggles that had long divided the German territories against one another . |