Example sentences of "[noun] after the first " in BNC.

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1 There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process .
2 Hot favourite after the first two races is Witton-le-Wear-based Harry Williams ' Pond Curlew , which is unbeaten off 8 metres , winning by 5 9 and 7 lengths , with a best time for the 450-metres trip of 27.44 secs .
3 Yes , this , this kind of thing happens to people who 've been in traumatic situations , like erm er prisoner of war camps , severe accidents and stuff like that , and Freud himself of course saw quite a lot of these cases after the First World War .
4 Like many other coastal shipping companies it met hard times after the First World War , when motor lorries began taking the general cargoes that used to go by sea to all the little ports .
5 Twenty minutes after the first radio signal , Lawton finished his pre-flight checks .
6 In it she explained that she had experienced a second climax during lovemaking which took place some five minutes after the first .
7 A warning was telephoned to the Samaritans and the BBC seven minutes after the first explosion .
8 The recall part of the experiment started approximately 50 minutes after the first and 10 minutes after the last of the junctions had been driven through ( the exact times varied considerably depending on driving style and traffic conditions ) .
9 Contractile activity increases promptly with food ingestion ( within one to three minutes after the first mouthful of food ) and lasts several hours after ingestion of a meal .
10 In most subjects a second bolus containing a different quantity of bicarbonate to the first was infused 30 minutes after the first bolus .
11 One hit was scored against Scharnhorst , but both ships hit the old liner time and time again and 14 minutes after the first shot , it was all over .
12 Just 45 minutes after the first emergency call , replacement product is with the customer .
13 ANDREW SHERBORNE , the quiet man of British golf , shot a five-under-par 67 to lead the field after the first round of the Kronenbourg Open at Salo , near Verona , yesterday .
14 Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day .
15 This test should be repeated once per hour after the first full hour of rainfall .
16 The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it .
17 Sixteen hours after the first assault , the Pentagon said the invasion force had ended ‘ all organised resistance ’ by the Panamamian Defence Force , although scattered soldiers were still fighting .
18 The second review should be not later than nine hours after the first ( i.e. 15 hours after the detention ) .
19 A record 743 cars took part in 1950 which meant the last car away left Brescia about 12 hours after the first !
20 Ordered , That , at the sitting on Tuesday 4th February , the Motions in the name of Mr Francis Maude relating to Supplementary Estimates 1991-92 and Estimates 1992-93 ( Vote on Account ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or for one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Questions necessary to dispose of them .
21 Ordered , That , at the sitting on Wednesday 5th February , notwithstanding the provisions of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) , the Motions in the name of Mr. Secretary Hunt relating to Local Government Finance ( Wales ) may be proceeded with , though opposed , until half-past Eleven o'clock or the end of a period of one and a half hours after the first of them has been entered upon , whichever is the later , at which time Mr. Speaker shall put the Question necessary to dispose of them ; and those Questions may be decided after the expiry of the time for opposed business .
22 Angry punters demonstrated on the course after the first race , while negotiations went on between track officials and the Tote workers .
23 This was particularly the case after the first oil crisis when the Euro-currency market may have responded too easily to the financing needs of some countries , effectively building up problems for the future .
24 Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic .
25 America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night .
26 The world record for economic inflation was probably Germany after the First World War , where the price of a loaf of bread went from under a mark to millions of marks in a few months .
27 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 .
28 He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree .
29 Indeed , the effects of retrieval failure may also be evident during the course of conditioning itself because any trial after the first can be viewed as being a test trial on which the subject is required to retrieve information acquired on earlier trials .
30 The Empire reached its zenith after the First World War with the acquisition of former German colonies in Africa and with the addition of League of Nations mandates to govern parts of the old Ottoman Empire in the Middle East — Palestine , Jordan and Iraq .
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