Example sentences of "the [num] [noun] following the " 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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory . |
| 8 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 9 | In spite of the fact that trade increased by 50% in the three months following the ‘ big bang ’ the rise in costs associated with both increased labour and capital costs caused reductions in rates of return on capital for many firms . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In the two decades following the Second World War , secondary schools were divided into grammar and secondary modern schools . |
| 23 | True , I 'd had trouble with nightmares the two nights following the accident , but the medicine which Doctor Keylock brought sorted that out , and afterwards I never gave it a thought . |
| 24 | In the two years following the return to civilian rule the activity of a considerable number of the news media became increasingly partisan . |
| 25 | If I feel that a particular patient is suffering from extreme tension and finds it difficult to relax , then I may suggest that , during the two weeks following the regression session , he simply practises a basic relaxation exercise for a few minutes a day . |
| 26 | In the two weeks following the election there were intensive discussions between the VP , the VNUP , and the MPP concerning the possibility of forming a coalition government . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In the four months following the emperor 's departure , Charles 's military moves are unknown . |