Example sentences of "after the first [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some three weeks after the first anniversary of her husband 's death , she telephoned saying , ‘ Thank you for your letter ’ ( this being the one I had written a year earlier ) . |
| 2 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 3 | Launching the document , to be distributed to schools and organisations in the borough , Coun. Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the completion of the highly successful and acclaimed Railside Revival something that has served as a model to the whole of the North-East we are unveiling the new environmental charter for Darlington next to the main line railway in the Rockwell nature conservation area . ’ |
| 4 | Coun Williams said : ‘ It is particularly appropriate that the day after the first anniversary of the successful Railside Revival , we are unveiling a new Environmental Charter . |
| 5 | He says that he was told his father was alive after the first crash … by the time he 'd had the second crash in the rescue boat he was dead . |
| 6 | After the first sip he was wishing some awful fate on every Lioniser in the world . |
| 7 | While being towed back to Sirri after the first incident , Harmony I was attacked again and sank . |
| 8 | Edith had also stopped all the pupils in the school from beating her up again after the first incident and during the riot it was Edith who had saved her life . |
| 9 | The problem was naturally most acute in the lands where feudalism was most highly developed : in northern France and the Low Countries , in England and south Italy after the Norman conquests , and in Syria after the First Crusade . |
| 10 | Yet the World Bank has conducted and published project audits on average seven years after the first disbursement of funds , and three years after the final year of disbursement . |
| 11 | There was discussion after the first night between the Welsh interpreters , Rheinallt Williams and David Sheppard . |
| 12 | However , I imagined that the praise I received that night was merely to be a preview of the steaming sauna of appreciation that I 'd receive after the first night . |
| 13 | After the first night there was the traditional party at Sardi 's while the reviews were awaited . |
| 14 | Alec Guinness introduced him to the audience after the first night , although such was his nervousness that Sherek had to push him onto the stage and , when a photographer blew a flash bulb in his face just as he was about to speak , he muttered " Oh my God " . |
| 15 | While most all-night recording experiments are over brief periods ( of up to a week ) , some very extended studies have been done , and there is no evidence that the patterns of sleep we observe over short periods ( after the first night ) are in any way peculiar to the unfamiliarity of the laboratory environment . |
| 16 | The sight of Fred and Daisy after the first night added to his nerve , and he scooped the skeletal Peaseblossom out of a dressing-room full of tulle to take her out to dinner with them . |
| 17 | After the first night , at the party he had danced with her three times , and ruffled her hair once . |
| 18 | Again his mind was clouded by the heresy that had struck him after the first night in Taunton . |
| 19 | Obviously there had been no notices after the first night , and few of the critics of the major papers would have had time , let alone interest , to give the play a second viewing ; but a North London local paper with a weekly deadline had sent along its critic on the Monday of the second week , and their review appeared on the Thursday . |
| 20 | after the first night |
| 21 | There was a deal of euphoria after the first night , the success of the missions , a certain element of surprise , but I did say at that time that we 'd be foolish to lower our guard , because erm there was still a lot of work to do , and that is exactly what it 's turning out to be , and we 're going for his military installations , and he 's got a lot of them , and it 's a wearing down process . |
| 22 | For some reason , shortly after the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist took its number out of the phone book , she started to forget to lisp . |
| 23 | Operationally , this might be defined as those unplanned readmissions occurring within a ‘ short ’ ( but specified ) interval after the first discharge . |
| 24 | ‘ If a woman did not become pregnant after the first transfer attempt , any frozen embryos could be thawed and transferred in a subsequent menstrual cycle , ’ he said . |
| 25 | After the first occasion , Timothy managed to contrive other encounters , Topaz never suspecting that they were anything but happy chances . |
| 26 | Six months after the first birth , a wife 's evaluation of marriage is likely to be lower than that of her husband , and by eighteen months conflict may reach a peak . |
| 27 | A vanishing ! ’ they exclaimed , hearing the nacarena 's voice pour through the pulled blinds from the house marked with black crosses and hung with newly dyed banners of death ; women 's voices , giving birth to the eternal soul , were louder than the priest 's obsequies , the relatives ' rosaries , and the lullabies they sang after the first birth , the entry into the mortal transit . |
| 28 | The real failures are those who give up and do n't attempt to succeed at all after the first setback . |
| 29 | After the first prescription |
| 30 | A joint statement released after the first day of the summit stressed that both Germanys had to act responsibly , and take into account the concerns and interests of their neighbours and allies in East and West . |