Example sentences of "[adv] after the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | Note , also , that oxygen gas — that fraction of the modern atmosphere that we and other animals find so essential — is a mere byproduct ; something that appeared in the atmosphere almost by chance , long after the first living things evolved . |
| 2 | Reginald Mitchell died of cancer not long after the first Spitfire took to the skies . |
| 3 | Whether this new investigation has been ordered partly as a response to the assertions made by the New York firm of O'Toole-Ewald Arts Associates , whose services Goldreyer engaged just after the first report was released by the Rijswijk laboratories , is not certain . |
| 4 | Unfortunately this turned out to be a wasted effort , as the closure of Arkwright Colliery was announced soon after the first train had used the spur . |
| 5 | Rather curiously , soon after the first tower-house was built , a second , of L-shaped plan , was built next to it . |
| 6 | By 9 a.m. the shore party reported a swift victory and shortly after the first reluctant emigrant arrived at the ship 's side . |
| 7 | Daisy had one baby and then another , and Fred and Arthur did a television series together directly after the first child was born , but a reserve had come between them and their companionship was n't quite the same . |
| 8 | There were several others who used to come and see me in Baldersdale , particularly after the first television programme went out in January 1973 , including some of the nurses . |
| 9 | Immediately after the first wave of evacuation had taken place there was a chorus of outrage from reception areas about some of the evacuees — evidently those from the poorest homes in inner-city areas — who were said to be filthy , verminous , incontinent , ungrateful and thoroughly ill-mannered . |
| 10 | Indeed , even after the first wave of evacuation had taken place it was the view of the Board of Education that ‘ if there were any further large-scale evacuation it would probably be a hasty one , occasioned by sudden and serious bombing . |
| 11 | Even after the first national curriculum was quietly abandoned , elementary schools remained under the general regulations of the Board of Education , which meant in effect , continuing to teach history . |
| 12 | I saw him again after the first single had been released . |