Example sentences of "after the first [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their best ( fastest ) responses were , however , just as fast as when rested , although the number of slow responses ( or gaps in responding ) increased dramatically after the first five minutes . |
| 2 | After the first five numbers |
| 3 | It had been started with two friends by Adrian Cotterell , Polytechnic journalism drop-out , and although the two friends had themselves dropped out after the first twelve months Cotterell had managed to keep enough people together for the place to stay in business . |
| 4 | After the first thirty years of operation of the NHS , however , there had been disappointingly little change ; in 1976 , the Court Report noted that the variations in regional provision of service were still much the same as they had been in 1948 when the NHS began . |
| 5 | Blanche wanted to be clever and memorise the way his finger moved across the numbers but she could not maintain the concentration after the first four . |
| 6 | Philip , looking at that page , erm , after the first four years , two other factors affect the allocation to units , and that information is in the bottom of that second page . |
| 7 | But although Christine was exhausted after the first six weeks , Anna has brought great joy into their lives . |
| 8 | They should also be invited to meet others holding similar posts after the first six months to discuss common concerns . |
| 9 | Patients were evaluated at entry , after the first six months , and then annually . |
| 10 | Boro were eight points behind after the first six seats and 12 in arrears two races later . |
| 11 | Similarly other hard information is scant , for instance James Braid who laid out the ‘ links ’ as they were called for some time , is not mentioned until the sixth meeting on October 29th ; that is four months after the first nine holes were opened , and even then the reference is vague . |
| 12 | At many courses , if you 've struck one hazard too many you can nip into the bar for some refreshment after the first nine . |
| 13 | After the first eight days of action — during which 19 of his 31 officers were killed and seven wounded , and the battalion was reduced to 40 per cent of its original strength — he himself was badly wounded leading a counter-attack . |
| 14 | After the first eight experiments , a second size 8 nasogastric tube was cemented into the assembly with aspiration holes at the same position as the other size 8 nasogastric tube , and both were connected externally by a Y connector . |
| 15 | After all , Mr Grey observed , ‘ after the first 10 days or so of the academic year we regard it as all over . |
| 16 | Helen had confessed at lunch that she would sooner have been three behind than three in front — and when news came , after the first 10 holes of the fourth round , that she had fallen one to the rear of the Australian , one had the feeling that she was merely paving the way for a last-minute attack . |
| 17 | He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence . |
| 18 | Tobin was completely out of it and Wallace disappeared after the first 10 minutes . |
| 19 | After the first two chapters , it discusses where and how to read art criticism . |
| 20 | Leech said that Bully Boy set off very quickly , but he was able to settle the gelding after the first two fences and went on to win unchallenged . |
| 21 | America 's Patriot anti-missile batteries , hastily airlifted to Israel from Germany after the first two Scud attacks , failed to stop a third attack but worked well the following night . |
| 22 | After the first two movements , after such great torture , all you can do is let the music flow . |
| 23 | By 1980 , after the first two out of a total of four literacy campaigns , the illiteracy rate for the population over fifteen years old had been brought down to 72.2 per cent from 93 per cent at independence . |
| 24 | CHANGES SHOULD NOT NORMALLY BE MADE AFTER THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF THE TEACHING PERIOD . |
| 25 | So after the first two calls you are up to eighty . |
| 26 | ‘ It was always my intention after the first two years of trying things out to get a more stable situation after the European Championships . |
| 27 | Every day after the first two weeks I would look anxiously up and down the road , hoping to see their car . |
| 28 | The real evidence of successful integration occurred after the first two weeks . |
| 29 | When John Lehmann published the second issue of Orpheus , an annual symposium of the arts which folded after the first two volumes , he employed Minton to design its dustjacket and small tail-pieces . |
| 30 | I have looked after my husband for seven years , he had a brain tumour operation nearly eight years ago , and he 's in a wheelchair he ca n't walk , but his , after the first two years of caring for him , he 's become bright enough to do the Daily Telegraph crossword , and so he 's er erm brain 's alright . |