Example sentences of "after a [noun] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Janabi failed to return to his job at the Ministry of Military Industrialization after a vacation in Jordan . |
| 2 | After a spell in Manchester ( 1908–11 ) as secretary of the North of England Society for Women 's Suffrage , she became honorary secretary ( 1911–15 ) of the National Union of Women 's Suffrage societies , led by ( Dame ) Millicent Fawcett [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | After a spell in teaching , she joined the Irish Times ; five years later , in 1973 , she was offered a job in the paper 's office in London , where she met her husband , writer Gordon Snell . |
| 4 | After a spell in Australia Biddles is back and celebrating a great victory … its a great story for our Friday Feature |
| 5 | Then , after a spell in prison , I took charge of a lodging house called La America . |
| 6 | But a stroke left him paralysed , and after a spell in hospital he moved in with his daughter and son-in-law . |
| 7 | Eventually , after a spell in Scandinavia , he met Steve Coppell and pleaded with the Palace boss for a trial . |
| 8 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 9 | Mal Gibb joined a Lancaster scheme after a degree in systems modelling at Sheffield Polytechnic and is now helping to develop computerised production at Nairn Kingfisher , a wallpaper plant on the Lancaster quayside . |
| 10 | Denmark — which rejected the Treaty after a referendum in June — was given special dispensation to wait until 1993 . |
| 11 | After a performance in Manchester towards the end of 1989 , Gedge was accosted by a group of fans who told him vehemently that the band 's new songs were poor compared with previous material . |
| 12 | Police are hunting three men after a stabbing in Oxford city centre . |
| 13 | THREE drivers escaped injury after a crash in Northallerton . |
| 14 | By 1937 , as a result of migration from rural Kaszubia , an influx of unemployed people from nearby Elbing and Marienburg , and the large number of Jews in transit through the city who had become trapped there after a change in US immigration policy , there were about 17,000 Poles — including Kaszubians , Danzig Poles , Polish immigrants and Polish Jews — living in the urban districts . |
| 15 | Again , it is limited but it shows that an audit failure is three times as likely to occur in the first two years after a change in auditor as in subsequent years . |
| 16 | The effect of the Sky losses will look even more dramatic after a change in accounting policy which takes them directly out of the profit and loss account . |
| 17 | According to Carol Evans ' detailed analysis ( 1991 ) , the land-based arms industry was not planned : it emerged after a slump in demand for machine tools and other capital goods . |
| 18 | After a childhood in Lanark , Scotland , where he attended preparatory school , Douglas went to Canada in 1819 in the employ of a firm soon absorbed by the Hudson 's Bay Company . |
| 19 | The tournament favourites would appear to be White Hart Marauders — named after a pub in Hampshire — who field among their ranks three of the recently-named British Lions , England 's Jeremy Guscott and Dewi Morris and Wales 's Richard Webster . |
| 20 | The most prominent of these was Hsu Hsin-liang who returned secretly to Taiwan in September after a decade in exile in the United States . |
| 21 | After a decade in office Mrs Thatcher was still an exception to this trend and was as popular as when she first became Prime Minister . |
| 22 | The book , signed with the pseudonym Manicamp , after a character in Dumas 's Vicomte de Bragelonne but in reality by Stephane Denis , a political journalist , is a fictional account of the end of Mr Mitterrand 's reign and the welter of intrigue surrounding it . |
| 23 | An 82-year-old retired commercial traveller died on February 13 after a fall in North Tees General Hospital , an inquest heard . |
| 24 | The authorities continued to hold large public trials of criminals during 1990 and 1991 , which would often end in mass executions ; in September 1990 65 people were executed after a trial in Canton . |
| 25 | The three-year-old was released after a night in hospital . |
| 26 | Day Five : After a night in Speyer your cruise carries on with an early morning departure for Strasbourg . |
| 27 | Homeless Taylor was at Marylebone Court , London , after a night in police custody on a charge of threatening behaviour . |
| 28 | Xokonoshetl Gomorro gets his possessions back after a night in police cells . |
| 29 | Only after a course in fungus recognition . |
| 30 | In 1947 , when the school leaving age rose to fifteen after a battle in Cabinet , the pressures on the junior school rose further , since the difference between grammar schools and others was diminished , as there was only one year between them , not two . |