Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] after the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Cristo Chapel , built soon after the first landing in the fifteenth century , was rebuilt during the sixteenth century and again in 1883 . |
| 2 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 3 | However , despite the setbacks , the game bounced back after the Second World War and , in a similar way to the developments in France and Romania at the turn of the century , it made inroads into Soviet universities . |
| 4 | So you know , these traditions die hard but I m but things had to change and they changed really after the Second World War . |
| 5 | Also , because the rats ’ behaviour changed immediately after the first reinforcement trial , Tolman argued that the results obtained could only occur if the rats had earlier developed a cognitive map , that is the mental representation of the particular special arrangement of the maze . |
| 6 | Steam lorries lingered on after the Second World War , largely because of the shortage of oil . |
| 7 | However , the worst outrage on Fox Hill came only after the Second World War , when horrid concrete housing was plonked on the top . |
| 8 | During the visit , which came shortly after the 50th anniversary of the start of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union ( " Operation Barbarossa " ) on June 22 , 1941 [ see pp. 4667-69 ] , both leaders confirmed their countries ' friendship . |
| 9 | Gary dropped out after the second round because of 'flu or something . |
| 10 | The RPR candidate , Charles Pasqua dropped out after the first round . |
| 11 | In rural areas only about 6 per cent of the children who entered the first grade completed the primary cycle , and half these entrants dropped out after the first grade . |
| 12 | The meeting opened immediately after the second return to Phnom Penh , under heavy guard , of Khieu Samphan . |
| 13 | The high reputation and influence of Anatolian rugs declined rapidly after the First World War , when the creator of modern Turkey , Kemal Ataturk , set about purging the country of Armenians and Greeks . |
| 14 | The idea , conceived by Chancellor Helmut Kohl and endorsed last month in talks between the German leader and US president Bill Clinton , is an attempt to revive the strong transatlantic ties that existed immediately after the Second World War but which have steadily declined as that post-war generation ages . |
| 15 | The numbers of places in day nurseries ( the only state day-care provision ) declined steadily after the Second World War , and has only recently increased by a tiny amount . |
| 16 | The EC troika arrived in Zagreb on Aug. 2 but talks in Belgrade broke down after the third round on Aug. 4 which Milosevic boycotted . |
| 17 | 1 knew straightaway after the first month . |
| 18 | W that bit we gave up after the First World War but we made er we did make some of these er patented things that they had in the Second World War . |