Example sentences of "and after the first [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the beginning of the sixteenth century those of the vicars-choral showed a slight increase , but this was short-lived , and after the first decade there was yet a further decline ( 56 ) .
2 I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine .
3 It really did turn me on and after the first time I done it it it turned me on so much I come .
4 He had evoked in extreme measure and focused upon himself many irrational , but none the less real and strong , feelings of selfless devotion , sacrifice , and passionate commitment to a national ideal — emotions which had developed enormous , elemental force during and after the First World War .
5 Nevertheless , Roberts describes a way of life before and after the First World War which is quite fascinating and now , obviously , long past .
6 Credit assessment — judging the profitable amount of credit to give , in what form and who to give it to — acquired new significance with the social changes that came with and after the First World War , and the even greater upheaval with the much bigger population after the Second .
7 This had developed from a side-interest of the original Weetman Pearson ( Lord Cowdray ) , a civil engineer and Liberal activist before and after the First World War .
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