Example sentences of "and [adv] after a " in BNC.
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1 | And eventually after a period of time that ins outer insulation will wear down , it will fray and it will break and it will expose the live and the neutral wires until , unfortunately sometimes , it will be a little bit too late . |
2 | And so after a month or so 's arrears accumulated she got the inevitable form — an eviction notice . |
3 | And so after a while erm we found that , apart from one or two minor anomalies , er that our members were able to achieve round about forty seven , forty eight , forty nine percent . |
4 | I had attended evening classes in Italian all winter and so after a pause I said ‘ I sogni non durano mai ’ — ‘ Dreams never last ’ . |
5 | During the addition of user data , dangling cross-references , perhaps reflecting the order in which data is added , are flagged in the first pass and only after a second pass to re-check citations is the possibility of rejection considered . |
6 | When they meet one another , they gingerly caress each other 's long legs and only after a great deal of hesitation do they come to closer quarters . |
7 | Sooner , rather than later , and generally after a few stiff drams , Joicey would break into the Gaelic , roaring and shouting at the top of his voice : ‘ Man to man it was in those days . |
8 | At some stages in their lives children are quite convinced that they have magical powers and often after a tussle about bedtime or a rejected request to watch a TV programme will ‘ wish ’ that the irritating adult would vanish . |
9 | But when the sun went behind clouds , and particularly after a rain shower when the undergrowth was moist , they travelled during much of the day . |
10 | As Ho and other communists noted , amongst the European proletariat the issue of colonial emancipation was very much an also-ran in the 1920s ; and even after a bona fide Vietnamese communist party had been formed , it was just as irksome to them to have to accept the tutelage of the French Communist Party . |
11 | CAT Protein Network System should be applied prior to and immediately after a perm service to increase hair strength and maintain condition . |
12 | Slowly , trying to ration the pain into manageable portions , I slid my hand out again , and then after a while , hardly believing it , I bent my arm and felt round my back and came to the rod there also , and faced the grim certainty that someone had shot me not with a bullet but an arrow . |
13 | And then after a long pause , he sighed , ‘ But it will never be quite the same . ’ |
14 | I went to my room as often as I could , and then after a week I went to the local Employment Exchange . |
15 | And then after a brief explanation , ‘ The only reason I write to you is that you warned me this would happen . ’ |
16 | ‘ It 's grand ti see thoo , lass , ’ he breathed , and then after a ferocious bout of coughing , allowed his eyes to close again , as though the effort had been too great ! |
17 | With petit mal , the small fit , it used to called vaguely , you could talk to somebody and then go on nattering away and then suddenly the person would switch off and then just stare and then after a while they come back and talk to you and it 's , they pick up exactly where they 've left off , so as I say it used to be called day dreaming , now that 's the low end of the scale , now we go to the other end of the scale and remember please that there 's no set type for an epileptic , anybody , anywhere , any age at any time can have an epileptic fit , you do n't have to be that type , do n't . |
18 | And they espouse causes and strike attitudes , and then after a while when they get old they think what-the-hell , and they start doing what they like and nothing matters at all . |
19 | And then after a moment 's hesitation : ‘ I really do n't understand you , Cassie . ’ |
20 | They 'd set his hand and cast it , and then after a second set of plates a week later they 'd broken off the cast and operated . |
21 | That 's in the oh a lot of people did , oh yes , lot of people spent the money but I was one of the fortunate ones I had a little bit left because I mean I was , er I was very lucky myself , I mean I had a decent job at that time from time I left school and when I was on the dredging plant , I mean you take er in nineteen twenty five when er a schoolboy left school , his money was about ten shillings a week as an errand boy but I was one of the fortunate being a cabin boy on the dredger , I was getting thirty five shillings a week which was a lot of money and then after a few months they , I , they wanted another deck hand , so of course I went on there on four pound a week and then I was well off . |
22 | They talked a lot during dinner and then after a couple of brandies , went up to the bedroom . |
23 | And then after a couple of weeks he still could n't get on with his computer , so he came back . |
24 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
25 | and then after a while the acceleration reduces ? |
26 | That 's why er people who come to our company and then after a year or so think they can go away and do this on their own , ca n't do it . |
27 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
28 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |