Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] after the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this announcement the powers which had occupied and divided Germany after the Second World War effectively accepted the inevitability of early German unification , although the statement contained no indication of the four powers ' preferred timetables for unification or for the two-plus-four negotiations . |
| 2 | As it happened , Walter Kamm almost dismissed Joyce after the first audition . |
| 3 | ‘ I told Cadogan after the first hour . |
| 4 | Amal lost consciousness after the third boy raped her . |
| 5 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 6 | In Latin America this occurred during the great wave of nationalizations which took place after the Second World War and involved dislocation from which some of the railways have never recovered . |
| 7 | He refused to comply and left Oxford after the first year to join the Guardian where he remained for seven years before taking up a post as an investigative journalist with a left-wing French newspaper . |
| 8 | GCE O and A levels were devised when a large proportion of children left school after the fifth year , and when it was therefore sensible to have a block of examinations taken in that year , to operate partly as a school-leaving certification , partly as a screen , to select those who would stay on . |