Example sentences of "[num] [noun] following the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | According to the US Department of Agriculture , American apple growers lost $125 million in the six months following the scare over the preservative Alar , which was claimed by the Natural Resources Defence Council ( NRDC ) to cause cancer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 100 days following the ex dividend date ? |
| 6 | Twenty editions were published in the six weeks following the King 's death , and several more even after the book was banned by the Government . |
| 7 | Mr Whitehead was off work for six weeks following the accident and Largue spent two weeks in intensive care . |
| 8 | 10 days following the ex dividend date ? |
| 9 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 10 | The four zero food experiment consists of three stages : three weeks following the zero plan , four days on the rest test , and five days on the restart plan . |
| 11 | Sheila alleged that she was dazed for three days following the attack , suffering a black eye and a cut on her forehead . |
| 12 | The first part of the study examines the impact of financial arrangements made at the time of the divorce on the people directly concerned for the three years following the divorce . |
| 13 | TRANSITIONAL RELIEF : Personal community chargepayers in some properties may be entitled to relief in the first three years following the changeover from rates to the community charge . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the 11 months following the reorganisation , in which the two routes for obtaining research funds from the government were merged into one , the department has approved grants worth £100 million . |
| 17 | It is , however , now possible , historiographically , to divide the twenty-five years following the Council into two distinctly different eras — that of Paul VI and that of John Paul II . |
| 18 | Sally had been two stones ( 28lb/12.5kg ) overweight for ten years following the birth of her son . |
| 19 | The eastbound carriageway of the M-Fifty motorway was closed for five hours following the accident . |
| 20 | As many as 60 political parties were believed to have been legalized or freshly created during the 13 months following the publication in December 1989 of the draft joint constitution for a unified Yemen . |
| 21 | written medical evidence , or evidence of compassionate circumstances relevant to the performance of a candidate in a written examination must be presented to the course director or senior course tutor not later than five days following the examination ; |
| 22 | 37 days following the ex dividend date ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | On the other hand , it would be incorrect to suppose that the first influx of nuclear workers in Thurso did not produce the twofold or greater increase noted in rural new towns : the only two cases at ages 0–14 in the period 1951–67 occurred in the five years following the influx in 1958 ( expected 0.41 ; not significant ) . |
| 25 | Mobilisation of the internal calcium occurs after 0.75–1.8 seconds following the addition of thrombin ( Feinstein , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | the power hereby granted will expire 15 months following the passing of this resolution or , if earlier , at the conclusion of the Annual General Meeting of the Company to be held in 1991 , except that the Company may make an offer or agreement before it expires which would or might require equity securities to be allotted after it expires and the Directors may allot equity securities in pursuance of the offer or agreement notwithstanding its expiry . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the twenty years following the Act were ones of such rapid development in policy in the child care field that by 1968 the Seebohm Report recommended the absorption of the child care service by unified social services departments and the merging of specialist child work into generic social work . |
| 28 | Richards will have to rest the shoulder for at least four months following the operation to tighten up ligaments . |
| 29 | In the four months following the emperor 's departure , Charles 's military moves are unknown . |
| 30 | In June and July , the two months following the decision to make visitors to the Boboli Gardens pay at the gate , a total of 88,000 tickets were sold for a revenue of L364 million ( £173,300 ; $346,700 ) . |