Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | This test should be repeated once per hour after the first full hour of rainfall . |
| 5 | The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it . |
| 6 | Angry punters demonstrated on the course after the first race , while negotiations went on between track officials and the Tote workers . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In addition to this the men who were passing through the camp after the first year often had a different view of the war from those who had been there since before the fall of France . |
| 13 | I have also mentioned the question of indictment after the first court appearance , and other hon. Members have suggested other means to tackle the problem . |
| 14 | Put it together with the talk after the first battle , and add to it the understanding of the ark as the throne of God , as the visible guarantee of God 's presence with his people , the symbol of his covenant relationship with them , as their wedding ring , we might say , and you have then something to explain the consternation of Eli and the wife of Phinehas . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt a fraud after the first week off , ’ he says . |
| 16 | We were surprised at the continuing estimates of fixed costs , as we would have expected a minimal time investment after the first year of familiarisation , but given that training was identified as the major cost , it may be that this forms the bulk of the continuing cost . |
| 17 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 18 | Former Masters champion Ian Baker-Finch , playing in the same group as Senior , was also level with the card after the first round . |
| 19 | Where there is a small pattern repeat the quickest and simplest method is to allow one full pattern repeat per width after the first width . |
| 20 | Our marine insurance covers such damage or loss after the first £320 . |
| 21 | Abel managed to make £730 , which helped to develop a sports shop beside the Oval , though this later failed and he was rescued from penury by a public appeal launched by the Daily Mail after the First World War . |
| 22 | Debbie dropped out of college after the first year . ’ |
| 23 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 24 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 25 | This was of course extremely generous , but he extended his generosity to no other local saint after the first archbishop St Augustine , whom he could never have excluded . |
| 26 | But she was told to tone down her act after the first performance |
| 27 | No sisters until mother got married again , and me sister as I call her now , she 's me of course my half sister , Jessie , she was born I 'd be about seventeen cos she did n't get married till after the First World War , remarried me step-father was in the forces and he fought , he actually fought in the Boer War so he was a a soldier in the Boer War and in what we call the Great War , nineteen fourteen to nineteen eighteen , but er I had a misfortune to lose the brother next to me , Frank , which he had what was common in those days tubercular trouble , tubercular tuberculosis affected the bowels , see he died in , on August the fourth nineteen eighteen in the old infirmary that now classed as the Manor Hospital , but that was the old infirmary cos we there was no widow 's pension in those days , our mother was a bridle stitcher and she used to do have an old fashioned clamp , have you ever seen the clamps that are leather , th tha they held them , the leather , she used to stitch bridles at home , we used to help her with waxing the threads have a leather apron and a bit of wax and pull the wax over the thread , and then roll it round till it was strong enough to thread it , we used to make the threads for her to er stitch the bridles . |
| 28 | The process is called ‘ recoalification ’ , i.e. a new coalification after the first one which took place in Carboniferous times . |
| 29 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 30 | And come to think of it why did n't he find himself another caddie after the first round ? ’ |