Example sentences of "[adj] after [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Healthy , lustrous hair will complement any cut , although at this time of year it may become rather depressed after the exhausting effects of the sun and sea . |
| 2 | Recession has sapped demand throughout Europe and America at a time when stocks were already high after the good years of 1988–90 . |
| 3 | Although change in weight is very noticeable after a few months or a year , it simply is not detectable by just looking at physical shape on a daily basis . |
| 4 | ‘ You 'll have to excuse me husband , ’ she says , ‘ he get 's a bit borin' after a few pints . ’ |
| 5 | Shy young hairdressing assistants rapidly become bold and cheeky after a few months of work . |
| 6 | A small supply of burn dressings and some iodine solution was forthcoming after a few days . |
| 7 | The shirt comes in the usual varied rohan colour range — the colour ( in the case of my turquoise shirt ) is safe after a few washes , and there is a short-sleeved version available for £22 . |
| 8 | In the heat of the afternoon , both armies lay quiet , somnolent after the long hours of nervous exertion and the effects of the warmth and the food . |
| 9 | Each time I pretended to go to sleep again and went crazy after a few minutes . |
| 10 | The controls are well laid out and become instinctive after a few plays , though you have to let go of the joystick pretty smartish or you 'll move one block further than you intended . |
| 11 | AN estimated 500 people are still homeless after the devastating storms in Llandudno . |
| 12 | This is not to suggest that all the anti-Hanoverian crowds were encouraged from above ; as Nicholas Rogers has shown , patrician involvement seems to have become less common after the early stages of unrest , and increasingly the riots in most areas appear to have been led from below by more lowly types . |
| 13 | If it had steeled itself to cross this threshold ( as Yemen bravely did a month ago ) , Egypt might today be afflicted by nothing worse than a bad case of anti-incumbency — hardly surprising after a dozen years with the same tired face at the top . |