Example sentences of "[adv] after a [adj] period [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only after a long period of counselling that she has at last realised that she has to drop her charge against her father , and to forgive him for not being the person that she longed he should be . |
| 2 | All ten residents had been long-term patients in a large psychiatric hospital , were severely disabled and had been discharged only after a lengthy period of active rehabilitation . |
| 3 | Only after a considerable period of experience do infants give clear signs that they are aware of the extent of their own bodies and the division between themselves and the wider world . |
| 4 | The reference to ‘ Eventually ’ in the last sentence implies that it was only after a commendable period of restraint that horses were ordered in . |
| 5 | The Fitzwilliam Quartet recorded their cycle originally in the mid-1970s , shortly after a concentrated period of study with the composer . |
| 6 | Every loan should be followed up after a certain period of time . |
| 7 | Furthermore , if by the nature of the goods and/or the work , any defects therein or any failure thereof to conform as aforesaid does not or would not become apparent ( despite the carrying out of any examination and/or such tests ) until after use we may reject the same even after a reasonable period of use . |
| 8 | And subsequently after a long period of time , the opinions of our members generally was that we should change the , the procedure . |