Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] after the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 2 | Starting at Easter , the bookings would continue more or less uninterrupted until after the autumn half-term at the end of October . |
| 3 | The mammals also existed at this time , starting a little later in the mid-Triassic , but in very insignificant numbers and they were tiny until after the death of the dinosaurs , after which they had more fully evolved from the pelycosaurs and therapsids . |
| 4 | He was still more worried about the extensive rewriting of history that school text-books had been subjected to ; something of which most of us remained unaware until after the Second World War . |
| 5 | The members of the court held that the cause of action was not complete until after the birth of the plaintiff when the damages were suffered . |
| 6 | Beaverbrook noted in November that no conference with the USA would be possible until after the presidential election one year later . |
| 7 | The £1,800 earmarked for extensions and alterations to the Civic Centre had not in fact been turned down by the Liberal administration but had merely been cynically deferred until after the byelection ! |
| 8 | Our previous discussion has explained that the Bretton Woods system did not become fully operational until after the general acceptance of current account convertibility in 1958 . |
| 9 | The proportion of the population over 65 will remain more or less constant until after the turn of the century , giving a respite in which to acquire knowledge and formulate policies . |
| 10 | I was n't sure until after the first preview . |
| 11 | The artificial abrasive carborundum , made in Sweden , the U.S.A. and Japan , was probably not available to the Chinese until after the war of 1914–18 , since when its main use has been to impart a high surface gloss to finished articles . |
| 12 | That the signing of Nafta was now thought to be unlikely until after the November 1992 US presidential elections was a serious political setback for Salinas , who had invested considerable political capital in reaching an accord . |
| 13 | Lindner wo n't be available until after the World Cup final on October 23 because he 'll be a key man in the Aussie pack facing Great Britain . |
| 14 | The full details of the settlement , agreed in June , were kept secret until after the hearing of Lord Aldington 's libel action against Count Tolstoy and property developer Nigel Watts over a pamphlet repeating the allegations . |
| 15 | Even the current world recession has left Singapore virtually unscathed because after the 1985/86 slump , the government worked hard to make the economy less dependent on single industries , such as electronics , or certain countries , such as the US . |