Example sentences of "[adv] after the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon after the war ended it trebled its student members when the Ministry of Education issued grants to ex-servicemen in an attempt to prevent a recurrence of the disillusionment that had set in after the First World War . |
| 2 | At first , the Assembly could not even decide upon its own agenda : it was only after the first session in 1949 that the Committee of Ministers agreed not to exercise its right to draw up the Assembly 's agenda . |
| 3 | However , climbing sports differ from true climbers in that invariably they do not bloom until the second year wood , and then only on side shoots , and seldom repeat much after the first burst of bloom during June . |
| 4 | I knew the course because of playing it in my army days , and I knew where the worst of the rough was , but that did n't count for much after the first day . |
| 5 | 1 knew straightaway after the first month . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ We were three down after the first leg against Stuttgart , but there was a great feeling we could do it . |
| 7 | Not long after the first Love Feast plans were made for the building of a Methodist Chapel , facing the village green and just behind where St Mark 's Church now stands . |
| 8 | ( As for the war metaphor itself , that began to appear not long after the first world war stopped . ) |
| 9 | For The Silmarillion at least , though not published till 1977 , four years after its author 's death , was in existence as a ‘ narrative structure ’ not long after the First World War , while a version of it was submitted to George Allen & Unwin for publication forty years before it eventually came out . |
| 10 | Either through this , or through their exercise of coercive powers , the great landed nobility were able to minimize damage to their incomes in the first twenty years or so after the first onset of the plague . |
| 11 | There were frequent rowdy incidents as these gangs of travelling supporters descended on a town for an away match , especially after the First World War when the struggle for Irish independence was at its height . |
| 12 | Changes in the structure of the work-force ( greater concentration into single industries and decline of artisanal activity , especially after the First World War ) also tended to reduce the relevance of anarchism and to leave a vacuum for Marxist ideas . |
| 13 | ‘ Sam had a lot of input , especially after the first record , because then he had a direction . |
| 14 | Already after the first raid in August 1943 , SD agencies in Lower Franconia reported widespread shock and depression among the population , even among the previously ‘ reliable ’ sections who had been convinced of German victory . |
| 15 | ‘ She received a very serious wound to the stomach and two slashes to her arm , apparently inflicted as she staggered away after the first attack . |
| 16 | For some reason , shortly after the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist took its number out of the phone book , she started to forget to lisp . |
| 17 | Constructed of stone and with a tiled roof , it went out of use shortly after the First World War . |
| 18 | Shortly after the First World War , the mill ceased operating commercially , although it is said locally , that it was still used occasionally for the production of animal feed . |
| 19 | It continued , in sometimes sporadic use , until shortly after the First World War , one of the last references coming in 1921 . |
| 20 | For example , in discussing his plan to publish Der Freitheitsucher shortly after the First World War he wrote to Benjamin R. Tucker ( in English , for Tucker did not read German ) : ‘ The prices for printing and paper here are abominable , and I am not sure yet , if I can fulfill my plan . |
| 21 | Shortly after the First World War the firm had occasion to make a loan of £27,000 — for the crew of a cruiser that sailed into Portsmouth Harbour with paying-off pennant flying , only to find that someone had forgotten to order the cash . |
| 22 | Radio started in Europe shortly after the First World War , and the BBC began broadcasting in 1922 . |
| 23 | Shortly after the First World War tentative steps towards the implementation of a monopoly policy were being considered . |
| 24 | Shaun used to want to argue about essentially trivial things like whether we should appear on Top Of The Pops — and that was just after the first single . |
| 25 | In this article Peter J. Clarke , Manager , International Trade Services , AIB , traces the history surrounding the Letter of Credit from just after the First World War , when it reigned supreme , to the present day . |
| 26 | There were some departures from the norm : just after the First World War several tour operators organized trips to the battlefields of France and Belgium . |
| 27 | In Germany just after the First World War , for example , working class organisations were so far removed from both the objective interests of the class and the concern of its members that they were incapable of seizing the revolutionary opportunities open to them . |
| 28 | The following example of horse jading happened in Suffolk just after the First World War . |
| 29 | Yeah , aye , just after the First World War . |
| 30 | Then he had another one about er Gertrude who was erm , I never did know very much about Gertrude but she was erm a lady of some repute in er in Egypt a at erm either just before or just after the First World War . |