Example sentences of "[noun sg] after [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Radical changes were not made and yet unemployment rates remained more or less constant in single percentage figures throughout OECD countries until the oil price shock induced recession after 1973 .
2 While the impact of deep recession after 1979 on the conurbations and inner cities has been widely recognised and researched , far less is known about conditions in those labour markets outside the main cities where one or two dominant companies have declared major redundancy programmes in the course of restructuring .
3 Hampson is given ten-week ban after third sending off .
4 ‘ So they had no access to the main building after eleven o'clock ? ’
5 The instructions say that I can not enter the building after 11 o'clock this morning .
6 And what the devil , Kee is n't without sexual experience after all : she has a past .
7 In general wives were now thoroughly enjoying the experience after initial reservations but in two cases the wives were unhappy .
8 Maybe I had exaggerated things and Gilly was n't such a bad old stick after all .
9 He joins Max & Co after two years as Technical Director for Trevor Sorbie .
10 The prediction of its heliacal rising after inferior conjunction , that is , its first reappearance as ‘ the morning star ’ after a period of invisibility , was of vital concern to the Maya , who regarded it as a moment of particular dread .
11 Total sales in 1992 amounted to £636 million compared to £583 million in 1991 , a rise of 9% and the first rise after two years of decline .
12 We have shown that rectal dialysate values of LTB 4 , TXB 2 , and PGE 2 rise after pelvic radiotherapy .
13 Three tiers of certificate are offered : Part 1 , usually taken after one or two years part-time study ; Part 2 or Final Certificate after another two years ; and a Part 3 or Advanced Certificate is available in some subjects , usually including some training for management .
14 A research study from Cyprus showed that potatoes treated with a certain insecticide still contained a residue of 10 per cent ( 0.55mg per kg ) in the skin after 16 weeks of storage .
15 You 're obviously still a P-bass user after all this time …
16 Forest struck a devastating first blow after 11 minutes .
17 For example , go to Piccadilly Circus in London and see the statue of Eros , bow in hand and still balancing on one foot after all this time .
18 MANY PLACES OF INTEREST on and around the Three Peaks can only be reached on foot after many miles of walking over rough ground , but visitors to Leck Fell are favoured by a quiet moorland road that takes them to their objective precisely and , if they travel by car , without effort .
19 Faced with the problem of induction and related problems , inductivists have run into one difficulty after another in their attempts to construe science as a set of statements that can be established as true or probably true in the light of given evidence .
20 The British government only obtained certain concessions from the Stormont government in implementing measures of the welfare state variety after 1944 .
21 Bumbling John Major dropped one clanger after another yesterday as Britain 's economy took yet another hammering and last night he was reeling as two new opinion polls showed Labour verging ahead to a five point lead , enough to put them into Westminster with an overall majority .
22 ‘ The Queen Mother was always my favourite after that first invitation to play before her , ’ he said .
23 But then the columns of moulding moved in soundlessly and it was n't a tent after all .
24 Police have arrested and questioned a tanker driver after toxic waste got into a stream , destroying the local wildlife .
25 At the end , the traitor of the English clan hurled his credit cards at his parents ’ grave in what seemed to be a symbol for throwing bad money after good .
26 Even though you say there was n't , could you , could you fund them money after that ?
27 You 're not asked to chase any money after that .
28 Cause I 'm sorry I 'm not giving you money after that .
29 Well , from what I know he did n't get no money after that !
30 Perhaps we 're not so bothered about value for money after all .
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