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after

Later in time. He came home after Jane did. The doctor came after the patient had died.

after

(= subsequently, later, afterwards, afterward) happening at a time subsequent to a reference time he apologized subsequently he's going to the store but he'll be back here later it didn't happen until afterward two hours after that behind or in the rear and Jill came tumbling after located farther aft

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Simple sentences

You must look after the child.
You must be tired after such a long trip.
After a storm comes a calm.
There is nothing like a glass of beer after a whole day's work.
For a moment, he thought of going after the man.
After all that, the pain went away.
The buses left one after another.
He took off his glasses after that.
The dog ran after the cat.
I felt refreshed after showering.
After some hesitation, he laid the book on the desk.
I'll look after your child while you are away.
Pull into shape after washing.
Don't ruin my fun after all the pain that I put myself through.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much rancor between the Russians and the Germans, especially in areas once occupied by the Soviet Union.
Even now, many years after the Cold War, there is still much bitterness between Germans and Russians, especially in areas which were occupied by the Soviet Union.
After that, I left, but then I realized that I forgot my backpack at their house.
You asked after her? What did she say?
You should look after the children from time to time.
You continue making the same mistakes time after time.
He came after you left.
I make it a rule not to watch television after nine o'clock.
You speak first; I will speak after.
I'll look after your affairs when you are dead.
Would you look after my children while I am away on vacation?

Movie subtitles

Your eyes take after your mother's.
There were bandits, Who will come after us.
After the keys.
After Zero appeared, other groups apparently became more hard-working.
After having the Geass cast on them, or when it's in effect, there is a noticeable gap in memory.
He came after all!
Everything starts after we confirm the Britannian's real intentions.
Can you send him and the test unit over there after I make arrangements there?
Thirsting after conquest, commerce, colonisation and conversion, they exported their civilization from their little nook of Western Eurasia to every corner of the globe.
The big story is that after 1500, the West essentially dominated the rest.
And it's a story we ignore at our peril, because today, after half a millennium of tilting westwards, the world seems inexorably to be tilting to the East.
Question - could something similar happen to Western civilization 2.0 - the version that, after a millennium of stagnation, rose to dominate the world?
It was surpassed as the world's largest encyclopaedia only in 2007, after a reign of 600 years. by Wikipedia.
In 1 498, more than 80 years after the Chinese explorer Zheng He had landed at Malindi on the Kenyan coast, Vasco da Gama turned up.
After 6 p.m., when the Observatory's personnel had left, we were allowed to leave the room, but at 8 a.m. we had to be back.
And so we did day after day, and it went fine.
Henk came back after a few months with a very intriguing story.
After the war, Oort immediately wanted to build a large telescope, with a diameter of 25 meter.
Yet, after a year and a halt he had not made much progress and then he did something wrong and the entire receiver caught fire.
After my study of electronics, I came here in 1954.
After Van de Hulst's Oxford Lecture a second survey started in November 1953.
After all, this is his land not ours.
Friends! After having conquered this land in the name of France, you will now farm it and make it your new home for you and your children.
Every night after school, me, Mickey, and Pork Chop are making sandwiches for, like, two solid hours, sometimes three.
Well, I was just trying to figure out how your brother's still getting PBJs into the yard even after Pork Chop got busted.
Hey, Johnny, we should go shoot hoops after this. You wanna go shoot hoops?
I don't know, but from the sounds of it, they're gonna go after bud and youssef.
After the way you've treated me?
Named after my grandfather, I think.
I've got to look after myself.
Busy after school? Always.
She knew at that point, after she'd had several encounters with this guy, it turned out to be young Peter hale that was just a figment of her imagination.
He's going after your wolves, one by one.
After all the crap that he's pulled?
We're gonna look after you, okay?
And then, now she looks like this, so Johnny should be probably fearing for his life right now because Sam and Neeko went after him.
The whole world's political and business VIPs will be present. It's a dinner organized by the Royal Family, how can the host not go after inviting guests over?

News and current affairs

After all, medieval alchemists engaged in what we now consider an absurd search for ways to transform base metals into gold.
After all, gold pays no interest and even costs something to store.
After the subprime crisis erupted, mortgage and consumer debt was paid down by households either with their savings or by default.
Now, with household debt sustained on a knife-edge after feverish government intervention, the fiscal position has deteriorated dramatically and the current-account balance has worsened again.
With his Churchillian prose and almost Shakespearean cadences, his mellifluous phrases and sonorous voice carried for decades a message of hope from a people that could have lost all hope and trust in humanity after the horrors of World War II.
Indeed, enlargement of NATO comes only a few days after a deal was struck between Russia and the EU on the tricky question of access to the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad.
In addition, after visits by the French, British, and German foreign ministers, Iran announced a temporary suspension of its enrichment program.
After cutting down a swath of rainforest, soils are often quickly leached of their nutrients so that they cannot sustain crops or nutritious grasses for livestock.
After eight years of international administration, Kosovo's Albanian majority has tasted freedom and is eager for full independence.
After all, it hesitated little a few years ago to put a current member state, Austria, on notice that it was watching out for the welfare of that country's democracy.
It is, after all, President Kuchma who is discredited, not Ukraine's constitutional arrangements.
The resulting austerity will hinder Europe's growth, and thus that of its most distressed economies: after all, nothing would help Greece more than robust growth in its trading partners.
If the bonds were acceptable as collateral before the restructuring, surely they were safer after the restructuring, and thus equally acceptable.
Italy, too, is being drained of capital; in fact, the flight of investors accelerated after the ECB's liquidity injection.
After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.
Soon after, I started casually discussing the notion of becoming a backup cosmonaut with the Space Adventures team.
After all, since then the EP's influence and powers of joint decision-making have grown constantly.
After all, advanced countries account for about two-thirds of global GDP, so slow growth in these countries will inevitably impede global growth and truncate the growth potential of much of the developing world.
Our attention, after all, is naturally drawn to the worst events.
After NATO intervention in Kosovo, European leaders made this approach the cornerstone of their vision for the Balkans.
After all, international use of the currency has been growing exponentially.

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