Example sentences of "[noun pl] after the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | In fact , the Chope family were apt to come late , taking their seats after the first hymn had finished . |
2 | Perhaps the most confused man in the Yorkshire Dales during the first frantic days after the first transmission was the Baldersdale postman . |
3 | A RUINED castle is to be rebuilt , 750 years after the first brick of its historic predecessor was laid on the banks of the River Mersey . |
4 | The building was eventually completed in 1880 , over 300 years after the first stone had been laid . |
5 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |
6 | Thus it was n't for many years after the first inhibitor experiments were reported that I actually got around to test their effects myself . |
7 | The feeling in the dressing rooms after the first round was that one of them would collect the Cup . |
8 | At 1.15am nearly seven hours after the first salesman arrived Mrs Donnelly finally agreed to buy a window . |
9 | The time was 1.30 p.m. , three hours after the first count began . |
10 | It most frequently happens in employment contracts after the first employer has sold his business . |
11 | ‘ No doubt he will shuffle in five minutes after the first parent comes , and shuffle out half an hour before the last one goes . |