Example sentences of "[noun pl] after it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In mid-March LVMH reduced its debts by selling part of those businesses , the Lanson brand , only three months after it had bought it . |
| 2 | More than three months after it had won a parliamentary majority in a multiparty general election , the Bulgarian Socialist Party ( BSP — the renamed Bulgarian Communist Party ) finally abandoned in September its efforts to build a grand coalition government including the main opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) . |
| 3 | A mass trial by the Second Martial Law Court of Istanbul of 1,243 alleged militants of the Dev Sol ( " Revolutionary Left " ) group concluded on Nov. 1 , almost nine years and eight months after it had begun . |
| 4 | After hearing the tapes , and being satisfied that they contained no breach of confidence , the Government discontinued the action and the BBC was finally able to broadcast " My Country Right or Wrong " , six months after it had originally been scheduled , and after being forced in this fashion to submit it for State " vetting " . |
| 5 | A judge at Darlington County Court also ordered Finnegan to pay £2,400 in arrears after it emerged that no rent had been paid since July last year . |
| 6 | Dillons passed the cheque onto Childline after its parent Pentos received it from Legal & General Property as a token of thanks after it moved quickly to open branches of Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop and Athena in the Buttermarket Shopping Centre , Ipswich , in time for the centre 's first day of trading on 1st October . |
| 7 | Last month , the IMF declared Honduras ineligible for further funds after it failed to repay debts of $16 million , bringing its overdue obligations to $26.5 million . |
| 8 | Nor can I forgive her for having blocked Moira 's appointment as BBC Governor for the Arts after it had been cleared by the Home Office . |
| 9 | POST-mortems on two Romanian stowaways found dead in a container full of baskets after it entered the country through Felixstowe provided no clues to the cause of their deaths . |
| 10 | It will use it as an embedded controller in office automation products such as X-terminals after it shrinks it and optimizes its speed . |
| 11 | The expedition returned only two weeks after it had left , having never got to see Macquairie , the south coast , or the promising territory around Port Davy . |
| 12 | The court also granted a stay of proceedings for three weeks after it delivers its written judgment , in a few days , for the defence to decide whether to take its appeal to the Privy Council , the highest court to which the case can go . |
| 13 | A man who allowed a greyhound to suffer for six weeks after it broke its leg has been banned from keeping dogs for three years . |
| 14 | TORY cash cuts forced a hospital 's new head injuries unit to shut yesterday — ten weeks after it opened . |
| 15 | TORY cash cuts forced a hospital 's new head injuries unit to shut yesterday — ten weeks after it opened . |
| 16 | So far it 's cost six lives , the first one just weeks after it opened in a multiple pileup in thick fog . |
| 17 | She criticised British Rail for not closing all mainline stations after it received the warning . |
| 18 | Soviet recognition was extended to the Castro government a few days after it had taken power , but this was not reciprocated , and it appears to have been the Cubans , concerned not to give Washington any pretext for claiming that Communism had arrived in the Caribbean , who were responsible for the fact that for well over a year after the revolution the two countries did not have diplomatic ties . |
| 19 | On Jan. 9 , however , only days after it had begun , the Brazilian Justice Minister , Gen. Saulo Ramos , announced that the operation had ended , a decision widely seen as a concession to mining interests . |
| 20 | In Briggs [ 1987 ] Crim LR 708 the accused was seen riding a motorbike two days after it had been taken without lawful authority . |
| 21 | FIGHTER COLLECTION flew their P-38 Lightning back to Duxford from Lydd on Monday September 28 , 22 days after it came to grief in a belly landing at Lydd Airport , en route to the Shepway Seafront Airshow on September 6 ( FP October , p6 ) . |
| 22 | CHEMOXY , the Middlesbrough-based chemicals company , is on the verge of clinching a long-term contract just days after it revealed a £4m investment in the business . |
| 23 | while the Ministry of Defence deployed a speech-synthesiser called Ian McDonald to give the British public all the news fit to print , all of which appeared to be found fit several days after it happened . |
| 24 | ‘ Samantha and Leanne were on heart monitors for about three days after it happened . |
| 25 | Further , from the time of an announcement of an auction until 28 days after it has been held , the Bank observes a fallow period during which it does not sell stock of a similar type to that being auctioned so as not to be seen to be depressing the price . |
| 26 | But it did n't , because its jinx first struck 16 days after it opened when fire completely gutted the building . |
| 27 | THE investor protection system set up under the Financial Services Act is creaking under the strain , less than three years after it swung into operation . |
| 28 | MANCHESTER is considering re-introducing trams — 34 years after it scrapped them . |
| 29 | Kingfisher 's bid comes little more than three years after it fought off a £1.8billion takeover attempt by Dixons . |
| 30 | An appearance by Reagan , Le Monde suggested , might still save the show , even two and a half years after it had started . |