Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] after it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The water leak was discovered in Kozloduy 's sixth reactor after it was shut down for repairs and modifications [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 2 | Microsoft Corp says that sales of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade topped 3m copies in April , the first month after it began shipping the product , bettering the previous record set by MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1 upgrades combined ; sales of the upgrade were still supply-constrained , resulting in a backlog . |
| 3 | Forty-eight hours after the Novell-buys-Unix announcement , Microsoft was out telling folks like The Wall Street Journal that it would sell more than a million copies of Windows NT the first year after it comes out . |
| 4 | IRENE Aldis , who lost her wedding ring in 1932 , got it back for her 102nd birthday after it was found in a field at Honingham , Norfolk . |
| 5 | WHILE the people of Hong Kong , stripped of any useful British nationality by successive immigration laws , fear for their future after the massacre at Peking in June , many Macao citizens , just 40 miles away across the Pearl River delta , rest secure in the knowledge that Portugal will offer them a guaranteed home of last resort after it returns their territory to China in 1999 . |
| 6 | LABOUR MP Glenda Jackson was at the centre of a political row last night after it was discovered that forged proxy votes were used in her constituency during the General Election . |
| 7 | REFUGEES including children were trapped in a blazing Sarajevo hotel last night after it was hit by three mortar bombs . |
| 8 | A ROW was raging last night after it was revealed that a sex-change model agency chief is to appear on a top Irish TV show . |
| 9 | A FURIOUS row erupted last night after it was revealed that Justice Minister Maire Geoghegan-Quinn has refused to end the Republic 's shame over IRA statements . |
| 10 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 11 | The Welsh were not suffering alone : A stockpile of sandbags was being prepared in north Devon last night after it was badly hit by flash floods . |
| 12 | Royal Navy bomb disposal experts from Rosyth were on board a trawler , the George Duncan , two miles of the coast at Crimdon , near Hartlepool , last night after it caught a mine in its nets . |
| 13 | The decision to dynamite the rock , using five tons of explosives , was taken last week after it was found to be moving at an accelerated rate . |
| 14 | There have been concerns for some time that IBM Corp was fast running out of cash — the UK subsidiary was reportedly ordered to factor its receivables by its parent at the end of last year after it ran out of cash for its operations , hardly a cheap way of borrowing for a blue chip company , and the Reuter report that it and IBM Credit Corp are seeking $4,600m of revolving credit in the international syndicated loan market ( see page seven ) , seems to confirm it ; at least one source told the news wire that IBM is trying to keep the arrangement very quiet , presumably to avoid generating more alarm than there already is about progress of its business . |
| 15 | Motorola killed its intended predecessor , the 68050 , last year after it decided the development was n't advanced enough to justify the expenditure preparing it for production . |