Example sentences of "[noun] after the first [noun sg] " 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 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 A warning was telephoned to the Samaritans and the BBC seven minutes after the first explosion .
6 Just 45 minutes after the first emergency call , replacement product is with the customer .
7 Twenty minutes after the first radio signal , Lawton finished his pre-flight checks .
8 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 .
9 In most subjects a second bolus containing a different quantity of bicarbonate to the first was infused 30 minutes after the first bolus .
10 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 .
11 Anyway , nobody would be particularly interested in Connie after the first day .
12 The Mazowiecki government had tendered its resignation after the first round of the presidential elections , but parliament had initially refused to accept it .
13 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 .
14 Angry punters demonstrated on the course after the first race , while negotiations went on between track officials and the Tote workers .
15 Whipped a porn magazine out of his flight case after the first gin and tonic .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He failed the end of year exams after the first year and changed his subject to sociology , in which he later attained a degree .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The problem was naturally most acute in the lands where feudalism was most highly developed : in northern France and the Low Countries , in England and south Italy after the Norman conquests , and in Syria after the First Crusade .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 There are two main ways of singing the songs after the first verse .
26 Six months after the first birth , a wife 's evaluation of marriage is likely to be lower than that of her husband , and by eighteen months conflict may reach a peak .
27 A comparison is therefore made in Table 4.8 between action and control groups at the time of the second assessment ( approximately six months after the first assessment ) on receipt of some of the main forms of statutory help to those living at home : home help , meals-on-wheels , social worker , community psychiatric nurse , district nurse or bathing assistant , and day care ( day centre or day hospital ) .
28 RJ Mitchell died fifteen months after the first flight of the Spitfire .
29 The patient complained of spontaneous pain diffusely in the right knee two months after the first bowel symptoms , 28 days after the start of prednisolone treatment , and after a cumulative dose of 2.3 g .
30 Ostenecrosis was mentioned for the first time when the patient was seen by an orthopaedic surgeon with new radiographs ( see Figs 1 and 3 ) 30 months after the first bowel symptoms .
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