Example sentences of "[noun pl] after a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Boat rescue : RAF helicopter rescued two survivors after a boat capsized in Bristol Channel off Llantwit Major , South Glamorgan . |
| 2 | DIPLOMACY was plunged into darkness and officials were stranded in lifts after a snake coiled itself round power cables and blew all the fuses in a government conference centre in northern Tanzania . |
| 3 | HUNDREDS of children missed out on trips after a coach firm boycotted 15 Liverpool schools . |
| 4 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |
| 5 | Angolan radio announced on April 18 that agreement had been reached on unification of the two military forces , and Portuguese media reported on April 19 that it had been agreed to hold free elections 18 months after a ceasefire was signed . |
| 6 | Eleven months after a pensioner was found dead in his home , one of his neighbours has been charged with murdering him . |
| 7 | Asking what one remembers a couple of months after a conference is perhaps a good way of judging the event . |
| 8 | Its claims come less than five months after a Greenpeace report said that Aldermaston had an ‘ appalling safety record ’ of unreported deaths and fires , radioactive leaks and contamination of workers . |
| 9 | He was banished from last summer 's Olympics after a drugs test showed traces of the banned steroid Methandianone . |
| 10 | THERE is a new surge in demand in the States for Porsche cars after a Carolina woman revealed how the body of her '91 Carrera survived three shots from a. 44 Magnum fired by her ex-husband . |
| 11 | They are setting up the Horsewatch operation in Hampshire to protect the animals after a pony was attacked with a fence post . |
| 12 | Words can not express the sadness of seeing a teenager who looks barely older than a young child suffering from severe malnutrition , but there are the wonderful moments such as a child who suffered tremendous burns after a candle fell and set fire to her night-dress ; after months of careful dressing and cleaning her wounds have virtually healed — without the clinic the little girl would almost certainly have died . |
| 13 | I can hear them , the voices , I can feel the terror of flying up at fifty miles an hour and crashing my skull against that hard rock — CRASH ! — and my brains all spilling out in pieces and spraying round like sparks after a firework has exploded and floating down to the floor of the cave below … |
| 14 | AT LEAST one person died and three others were fighting for their lives after a school canoeing trip went disastrously wrong yesterday . |
| 15 | In Central News tonight : Meningitis alert : Warning to parents after a schoolgirl dies . |
| 16 | Poll tax payers could find an extra twenty five pounds on their bills after a council voted to defy Government spending limits . |
| 17 | He called for more street patrols after a 38pc increase in crime was reported , saying women and the elderly were afraid to go out after dark as well as some other men . |
| 18 | The patient had first become aware of the symptoms six weeks after a hakim had started treating him for atopic eczema . |
| 19 | A TRADE delegation from South Africa is being invited to Darlington just two weeks after a diplomat from the country was snubbed by the borough council . |
| 20 | TWO weeks after a South African diplomat was snubbed by Darlington Borough Council , a trade delegation has been invited to the town to create business links with local firms . |
| 21 | Leeds new centre signing Kevin Iro wo n't make his debut for at least six weeks after a specialist said that the Kiwi international 's injury was worse than first feared . |
| 22 | ANYTHING you can do … seven weeks after a Coventry Courtaulds employee became the proud father of quads a colleague in Grimsby went two better by becoming dad to sextuplets . |
| 23 | Research reports , which may be published in A4 format by the offset litho process , can often be available only weeks after a research project has been completed . |
| 24 | A stiff neck for a few weeks after a bump was tolerated in the past . |
| 25 | RATHBONES Retail was fined £350 , with £270 costs after a man found a brass nut in an almond tart . |
| 26 | There 's been concern for the families of radiation workers after a report found clusters of Leukaemia around Sellafield . |
| 27 | And public health inspectors found the kitchen overrun with the insects after a hygiene probe was launched . |
| 28 | FOOTBALL ‘ bad boy ’ Ian Jolosa is in trouble again … just days after a judge ordered him to clean up his act by watching Gary Lineker videos . |
| 29 | Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government . |
| 30 | Just days after a truce was agreed , Khmer Rouge guerrillas planted explosives on roads in Kompong Thom province to halt reinforcements being pushed north by Phnom Penh . |