Example sentences of "[noun pl] after the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oppenheimer himself was refused security clearance in December 1953 , four months after the first Russian H-bomb was exploded . |
| 2 | 4 months after the first tenants moved in , the builders are already back in this council house on the infamous Innsworth Grove estate . |
| 3 | A few weeks after the first officials went into the remote poppy valley , the charity began receiving visits from Pakistani and Afghan tribesmen and landlords demanding large sums in ‘ compensation ’ . |
| 4 | In fact , the Chope family were apt to come late , taking their seats after the first hymn had finished . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most confused man in the Yorkshire Dales during the first frantic days after the first transmission was the Baldersdale postman . |
| 6 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
| 7 | Photosynthesis probably began to evolve about half a billion years after the first living things appeared — about three billion years ago — and so the process of oxygenating the atmosphere began . |
| 8 | The building was eventually completed in 1880 , over 300 years after the first stone had been laid . |
| 9 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
| 10 | Twenty-five years after the first American soldiers went into Vietnam , fifteen years after the falls of Saigon and Phnom Penh , the issue of Vietnam — Vietnam was America 's war ; now it belongs to the world . |
| 11 | A RUINED castle is to be rebuilt , 750 years after the first brick of its historic predecessor was laid on the banks of the River Mersey . |
| 12 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
| 13 | The time was 1.30 p.m. , three hours after the first count began . |
| 14 | At one o'clock in the afternoon , eight hours after the first shots had been fired south of Charleroi , Sharpe met more cavalrymen ; this time a patrol in red-faced dark blue coats who thundered eagerly across a pasture to surround Sharpe and his two horses . |
| 15 | At 1.15am nearly seven hours after the first salesman arrived Mrs Donnelly finally agreed to buy a window . |
| 16 | It most frequently happens in employment contracts after the first employer has sold his business . |
| 17 | ‘ No doubt he will shuffle in five minutes after the first parent comes , and shuffle out half an hour before the last one goes . |