Example sentences of "[conj] after a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is most interesting , however , is that after a long famine , Latin America and its political and economic uncertainties have been thrust back on to centre stage . |
| 2 | YOU 'D think that after a long , hard and highly successful season , Linfield goalkeeper Wesley Lamont would want to put his feet up . |
| 3 | The city objected , and after a long controversy one was duly built . |
| 4 | Nails went upstairs and after a long time came down with a pair of paint-spattered dungarees and two pairs of jeans belonging to his father who weighed about sixteen stone , two jerseys of Gary 's and a navy-blue suit of indeterminate ancestry . |
| 5 | On February 14 , she went through her transplant and after a long and painful convalescence , came home to Newent . |
| 6 | And after a long day 's walking , what better way to end it than with a glass of cider in one of St Ives ' treasures — The Three Ferrets . |
| 7 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 8 | One day he had asked his parents if the Wrath eagles were the greatest of the golden eagles , and after a long pause his mother said , ‘ No eagle is greater than another , all of us are the same wherever we come from and whatever kind we are . |
| 9 | At 7 o'clock the office bearers , a number of the brethren and their lady friends sat down to a sumptuous repast in a granary tastefully decorated with evergreen and flags and after a long toast list the tables were removed for dancing . |
| 10 | We had made an early start that morning and after a long stiff climb up a bare hillside entered a forest of wild olives and massive juniper trees resembling cedars , many of them festooned with lichen . |
| 11 | He stood watching beside the flower-beds ; and after a long minute of uninterrupted work , Orrie straightened his long , athlete 's back again , and turned towards his audience the massive , stony beauty of his face , flushed with exertion . |
| 12 | Under mounting local and international pressure , and after a long campaign , the Japanese Government finally passed a new Mental Health Act in 1987 . |
| 13 | Okay , Jesus is the Son of God , poor old Joseph is just a kind of surrogate father erm , you know like a test-tube baby father actually test tube er is er is like you know er a complete surrogate father er for God erm they 're threatened by Herod so they have to flee to Egypt and er then they come back and eventually Jesus realizes who he is and after a long struggle with good and evil , temptation at the desert , crucifixion and God knows what , erm off he goes back to you know , sitting up there on the right hand of God saying you know I 'm the Son of God which he is , so Oedipus , Oedipus is expelled by his parents , there 's a prophecy he will murder his father and marry his mother , so they get rid of him , but he does n't die , he gets found by a shepherd , brought up by a shepherd . |
| 14 | Finally , from whatever defence line was established and after a long period of mobilization , Nato 's forces ( presumably mostly Anglo-American ) would launch the great counter-offensive . |
| 15 | Hawks could n't afford to repair the aircraft and after a long rest in the hangar , it was bought by Ed Connerton who rebuilt it as a two-seat military aircraft registered NX2491 . |
| 16 | It can be hard work being a prima dogga , and after a long book-signing session there 's nothing Dido likes more than going fishing in the River Kennet . |
| 17 | For the first time in British history , and after a long struggle , Conscription had become law ; but in Dublin the ‘ Easter Rising ’ had set the spark to Ireland , and in Mesopotamia General Townshend had surrendered to the Turks at Kut . |
| 18 | He was apparently found to be running a temperature , but after a long season of competing in the best company , he may be past his best . |
| 19 | But after a long time , they said OK . |
| 20 | But after a long moment he shook his head . |
| 21 | ‘ But after a long deliberation of all the circumstances , the Board agreed to sanction the contest on the conditions laid down . ’ |
| 22 | It said ‘ Many of the smaller hard drives available , especially old ones , use Stepper Motor actuators and it is these that really require that a low level format be carried out on them at least once a year , as after a long period of heating and cooling it is more than possible that the heads are out of alignment with the tracks . |
| 23 | There are occasions when after a long and difficult dig , and when a long time has elapsed before the recovery of the ferret and rabbit , you may discover that your ferret has scraped at the hindquarters of the rabbit for so long that it has broken the skin , drawn blood and started to eat the rabbit before it died . |