Example sentences of "bear after a " in BNC.

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1 The eye is inevitably drawn to this huge Dundee cake , the world 's newest land , born after a four-year gestation that started in 1963 .
2 A single foal is born after a gestation period of a year .
3 Youngest child Victoria was born after a break of 11 years .
4 Now in its second year , National Music Day was born after a conversation between the then Arts Minister Tim Renton and Rolling Stone Mick Jagger .
5 A 24-year-old boutique owner in Capri alleges her daughter named Alessandra was born after a fling with the Argentine and former Naples star — banned for taking cocaine .
6 The starting point for the case for gradual emancipation made in 1823 , largely by the freeing of children of slaves born after a certain date , was the agreed failure of the expected automatic amelioration of slavery after abolition of the slave trade .
7 Although mistrusting children , he showed an absorbed interest as he took the photographs and gazed at Henrietta ( fourteen ) , Samantha ( just ten ) and the baby Jacqueline ( now three and born after a long period during which Hugh had displayed a lack of interest in physical contact ) .
8 However some say the giants were born after a band of women , banished from another land for murdering their husbands , slept with demons .
9 Early studies in the USA ( Hughes , 1923 ; Woodbury , 1925 ) reported higher infant mortality rates for those born after an interval of less than two years than for those born after a longer interval .
10 According to these data , in most communities studied , those babies had the best chances to survive infancy who were born after a three or four year interval .
11 In another study , researchers have said that premature babies are more likely to suffer from breathing difficulties in childhood than youngsters born after a full-term pregnancy .
12 Families where there is both a record of schizophrenia and where the index child was born after a particularly long or difficult labour would be particularly suitable targets .
13 Mrs Cossins and husband Ray decided four children was enough but ended up with six when nine-year-old Stephen and Caroline , eight , were both born after a sterilisation operation at North Tees General Hospital .
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