Example sentences of "[noun pl] following " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the months following the diagnosis , Mrs Henry found that it was not only a life-threatening disease that she had to contend with . |
| 2 | Richards will have to rest the shoulder for at least four months following the operation to tighten up ligaments . |
| 3 | In the six months following Stalingrad , Germany 's fortunes worsened still further as a result of the reversals in the east , the allied landing in Sicily and Calabria , and the fall of the Mussolini regime in Italy . |
| 4 | Before the Second World War ethnic Japanese were barred from applying for US citizenship ; in the months following Pearl Harbour 110,000 people were described in a State Department report as comprising a ‘ generally suspect ethnic group ’ and forcibly relocated from west coast communities to internment camps in the remote deserts of California , Arizona and Colorado , where most remained until the closing months of the war . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The team at the University of East Anglia analysed the month-by-month temperature record for the northern hemisphere over the 48 months following each event . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | NEARLY 2,000 businesses went bust in the three months following the Tories ' election victory . |
| 10 | The company has now axed more than 2,000 jobs in the last 18 months following a dramatic sales slump . |
| 11 | In the months following the end of the civil war , parliament 's New Model Army , which contained large numbers of soldiers who had rejected the Presbyterian establishment in favour of greater religious toleration , grew steadily more and more disenchanted with its masters . |
| 12 | We focus our attention on the three months following the eruption , when the SO 2 -induced perturbations are expected to be the most significant . |
| 13 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 14 | Although the numbers are small , there were similar rates of endometriosis in the never pregnant and in the unknown category , low rates in pregnant women and in the 48 months following pregnancy , and then higher rates once again in the remaining groups . |
| 15 | pregnant and expected to give birth before , or within 2 months following , the last day of the booked holiday . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | At times , in the months following the return from Germany , he had actively hated it and all the people who did belong . |
| 18 | At first , the Lord Chief Justice 's pronouncements appeared to have had the desired effect , as the average length of prison sentences imposed on males aged 17 and above for indictable offences fell in both the magistrates ' court and the Crown Court in the months following the cases of R. v. |
| 19 | Those who became unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job , but who did not become long-term unemployed , were more likely to have experienced three or more spells of joblessness and to have had three or more jobs in the 20 months following initial registration than were the sample as a whole . |
| 20 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The relative stability in the months following the purported declaration of independence back in May last year was very welcome and we must do all that we can to re-establish it , but sheer names on pieces of paper will not do so . |
| 23 | Countries establishing diplomatic relations with Namibia in the months following independence on March 21 , 1990 , included Bulgaria , Colombia , Czechoslovakia , Denmark , Finland , France , India , Iran , Libya , Morocco , Poland , Tunisia and Venezuela . |
| 24 | As part of the disestablishment of the CPCz , the matrix of party organizations in the economic , political , social and security spheres was dissolved in the months following the November revolution . |
| 25 | Some 100,000 Germans from the five eastern Länder ( states ) in Germany were estimated to have moved to the western Länder in the three months following German unification [ see pp. 37826 ; 37829 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Prime Minister : Nicholas Brathwaite , 65 , who had also led an interim government for 13 months following the 1983 US-led invasion . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | In the months following the ND election victory in April 1990 there was a boom in the Greek stock market , which was hailed as one of the world 's most promising " emerging markets " . |
| 30 | In the four months following the emperor 's departure , Charles 's military moves are unknown . |