Example sentences of "the first [noun sg] after [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Director of another company estimated savings of £2m in the first year after Effective Negotiating Seminars for their sales and purchasing staff , whilst the owner of a small company buying and selling industrial units in Europe identified a saving of over £800,000 in his next negotiation . |
| 2 | In a study , again in Costa Rica , the vegetation biomass , nutrient content and species composition were measured during the first year after clear-cutting of plots , some of which were treated with commercial inorganic fertilizer ( 70kg N , 87.5kg P and 166kg K per hectare ) while others were planted with the pioneering Cecropia obtusifolia , as seedlings . |
| 3 | Palestine was invoked repeatedly in regional struggles , in the first decade after 1945 , between Arab nationalists and the Hashemites in their competition to control the Fertile Crescent , and in the competition between Iraq and Egypt for political leadership of the Arab world . |
| 4 | Could n't believe it when they got the first goal after ten seconds |
| 5 | Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline . |
| 6 | for the first time after all these years . |
| 7 | The Queen 's Park Rangers forward is called into the senior party for the first time after one previous summons as a stand-by player . |
| 8 | She went home for the first time after twelve weeks … but she 's been in and out of the unit constantly ever since . |
| 9 | Clydebank then completed a breathtaking comeback by taking the lead for the first time after 68 minutes . |
| 10 | ‘ I scored the first time after eight minutes . |
| 11 | The man who had the responsibility of marking Chris Waddle managed to get forward throughout the game , the first time after 12 minutes when he stole into the box to rattle the Wednesday woodwork . |
| 12 | In the first month after full term these slow wave bursts increase in length until the low voltage periods of quiet sleep are entirely displaced . " |
| 13 | The root is best dug for use in the first autumn after permanent planting . |
| 14 | What is the first thing after all the things you 've forgotten ? |