Example sentences of "a [noun sg] after the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority are fitted in quite neatly , but the addition of a sentence after the first quotation on page 34 makes the referent of " Another possibility " , which opens the next sentence , ambiguous . |
| 2 | ‘ I felt a fraud after the first week off , ’ he says . |
| 3 | In fact a gold standard operated in the international economy prior to 1914 and for a period after the First World War . |
| 4 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 5 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |
| 6 | She kindly wrote me a letter after the first television programme about me , since her family and mine had been friends for years . |
| 7 | A generation after the first onset of the disease , the poll-tax levy of 1377 did provide such figures , but it is clearly impossible to use this to estimate the level of population before 1348 or indeed the scale of mortality in the first , or any of the intervening later , epidemics . |
| 8 | A year after the first warning , Mr Cannon still weighed over 20 stone . |