Example sentences of "one [noun sg] after the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 One second after the big bang , it would have fallen to about ten thousand million degrees .
2 We are therefore fairly confident that we have the right picture , at least back to about one second after the big bang .
3 GRAHAM TAYLOR woke today to find that he still has at least one friend after the worst week of his life .
4 One day after the four wartime allies underlined their interest in stability , he stressed Bonn 's ‘ vital interest in stability ’ .
5 The Court of Session decision was taken on Tuesday 26 March — just one day after the twenty-one day Place of Safety Orders on the nine children had expired .
6 ON THE morning of Sunday , 18 December , exactly one week after the Great North struck , Pipeline came back from the dead .
7 One week after the first raid on Exeter , the Germans returned in force , and devastated the centre of Exeter .
8 The Conservative Party made net gains of 308 seats in local elections held on May 7 for over 3,800 seats on 207 local district councils in England , Scotland and Wales , only one month after the general election in which it was returned to power for a fourth term [ see pp. 38868-69 ] .
9 Most parents graduate to giving one warning after the initial command so that the child has a little time in which to respond but parents need to be very careful that they do n't lapse into nagging to get the child to comply again .
10 Until now , those people who had more taxable benefits than allowances had to pay the extra tax in one sum after the following year end because the former PAYE system could not collect it .
11 I never disagree lightly with Elias Bickerman who has defended this tradition , already current in the second century B.C. — only one century after the alleged event .
12 So one year after the general election , how will Major 's cabinet be remembered in social policy terms , and how does Thatcher 's legacy now appear ?
13 One year after the initial diagnosis of PHT , the patient shows no evidence of portal hypertension .
14 In this case the proceedings were commenced in less than one year after the wrongful removal .
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