Example sentences of "[num] [noun] following the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is to prevent the offeror from acquiring more shares than he bid for under the partial offer , and shareholders in the target from receiving more favourable treatment from the offeror by selling in the market during the 12 months following the partial bid . |
| 2 | If an order under this subsection is complied with , the licensing board shall not make a further order within the six years following the first-mentioned order . |
| 3 | All were thought to be victims of the fierce military repression which took place in the first three months following the military coup of September 1973 . |
| 4 | IN the three decades following the Second World War , Scotland experienced an explosion of building and reconstruction on a scale unknown since the Industrial Revolution , driven by powerful political , social and architectural forces . |
| 5 | In recent years we have been witnessing an attempt to place more emphasis on the first two purposes of education to redress what is considered an imbalance in favour of the third in the three decades following the 1944 Education Act . |
| 6 | As the volume of private building increases over the two or three years following the proposed changes of policy , local authority housing must as soon as possible be restricted to these objects . |
| 7 | During the fourteen years following the Electrical conspiracy verdict , a further thirty-eight corporate executives out of nearly 800 convicted have been imprisoned for violations of the anti-trust laws . |
| 8 | For example , John Fox and Peter Goldblatt ( 1982 ) have shown that after controlling for age , mortality in the 5 years following the 1971 Census for men aged 15 to 64 was greater for the highest social class , professional workers , who were living in the local authority sector , than for the lowest social class , unskilled manual workers , in the owner-occupied sector ( see figure 7.9 ) . |
| 9 | FEB 1992 In the 36 hours following the TOP launch in February 1992 senior managers talked to all Station staff , including shift workers , to explain the need for change and the part everyone would play in the process . |
| 10 | After a period of apparent — and perhaps misleading — political stability in the first twenty-five years following the Second World War , the 1970s seem to have marked some sort of turning-point for the British political system . |
| 11 | The problem in understanding the present structure of the universe is that , after evolving for 10 billion years following the big bang , it has become very clumpy and matter has aggregated into galaxies and clusters and superclusters of galaxies . |
| 12 | Prime Minister : Nicholas Brathwaite , 65 , who had also led an interim government for 13 months following the 1983 US-led invasion . |
| 13 | The recent excesses of the financial world inevitably invite comparisons with the 1930s , when share prices fell by two-thirds in the five years following the Great Crash of 1929 . |
| 14 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 15 | Less than 4½ months following the two successful Spitfire transfers , VF-7 ( USS Wasp ) and a number of her crew were lying on the bottom of the Pacific . |
| 16 | This project explores the range of public attitudes to those new technologies and technical changes which characterised the inter-war years and the two decades following the Second World War . |
| 17 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |