Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] following [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
2 | The hostages , who were held for 444 days following the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran in September 1979 , were released within minutes of Reagan being sworn in as President on Jan. 21 , 1981 . |
3 | Mobilisation of the internal calcium occurs after 0.75–1.8 seconds following the addition of thrombin ( Feinstein , 1980 ) . |
4 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
5 | For six years following the adoption in November 1927 by the PCF Central Committee of the " class against class " tactic , the party followed an increasingly doctrinaire , Bolshevik course . |
6 | Where the Regulations apply , they give a cooling-off period entitling the customer to cancel the agreement at any time ‘ within the period of 7 days following the making of the contract . ’ |
7 | His cooling-off period does not expire until the end of seven days following the acceptance . |
8 | For three years following the completion of the Wilton power station next spring the NGC had special permission to operate below the legal transmission standards until the new line was built . |
9 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
10 | Many elderly people live in their own homes for many years following the death of a husband or a wife . |
11 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |
12 | For John Dunlop , the successful trainer , it was a second win in the juvenile event in three years following the victory of Ashayer in 1987 . |
13 | For those teaching the sixteen to nineteen age group , for example , the development of pre-vocational training in recent years following the establishment of the Manpower Services Commission , the changing pattern of technician education as a result of the creation of TEC and BEC , and the growth in GCE work in the further education colleges have all placed new demands on them , including additional curriculum development and course assessment duties . |
14 | The eastbound carriageway of the M-Fifty motorway was closed for five hours following the accident . |
15 | The same fate will await any terms which restrict the ex-employee 's future employment prospects to any great extent ; for example , a term which states that a computer programmer can not work for computer software companies in the United Kingdom for five years following the termination of his employment . |
16 | This time , he was in an infirmary for four days following an operation to have an abscess removed from his nether region . |