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Afternoon
Definition:
(n.) The part of the day which follows noon, between noon and evening.
Example Sentences:
(1) And I want to do this in partnership with you.” In the Commons, there are signs the home secretary may manage to reduce a rebellion by backbench Tory MPs this afternoon on plans to opt back into a series of EU justice and home affairs measures, notably the European arrest warrant .
(2) 'This is the upside of the downside': Women's March finds hope in defiance Read more As thousands gathered for the afternoon rally and march, Trump tweeted his solidarity with their action.
(3) We have examined the serum MT response in the male hamster to a single dose of 25 micrograms MT administered in the morning or in the afternoon--the same timing and dose used by others to produce reproductive effects.
(4) There was instead a significant relationship between starting FEV1 and histamine PC20 in the morning and in the afternoon both after placebo and fenoterol.
(5) Referee: Peter Bankes (Merseyside) This gnome, who lives in the shrubbery of Guardian gardening expert Jane Perrone, will be rooting for Luton Town this afternoon.
(6) "This is the guy we've all seen in Borders or HMV on a Friday afternoon, possibly after a drink or two, tie slightly undone, buying two CDs, a DVD and maybe a book - fifty quid's worth - and frantically computing how he's going to convince his partner that this is a really, really worthwhile investment."
(7) Late that Friday afternoon, Harold told police, Assange agreed to take a test, but the clinics had closed for the weekend.
(8) After the formal PIRC inquiry was triggered by the lord advocate, Frank Mulholland, Bayoh’s family said police gave them five different accounts of what had happened before eventually being told late on Sunday afternoon how he died.
(9) Glucose tolerance tests were performed on six hyperthyroid patients in the morning and afternoon before, and at the end of treatment with propranolol for 2 weeks.
(10) The maximal changes in the sympathetic activity at rest and during active orthostasis were revealed in the morning hours and in the second half of the day, the minimal ones--in the afternoon hours.
(11) In the dynamic phase the weight of interscapular brown adipose tissue was significantly increased in the VMH-lesioned rats, but the specific GDP binding was depressed both in the morning and afternoon when compared with either the sham-operated or PVN-lesioned groups.
(12) These results suggest that aerobic training is most effective in the afternoon.
(13) Although great individual variations were noted in both sexes, in men the mean blood sugar (BS) values did not significantly differ between the two tests; in women, however, the mean values after glucose loading were significantly higher during the afternoon test.
(14) 8.56pm BST Howard Amos, who spent this afternoon and evening in Odessa on the scene of clashes between pro-Kiev and pro-Moscow protesters , has filed a report on what he saw.
(15) In addition, the study of afternoon sleep has shown itself to be a sensitive and reliable test for the analysis of the effects of a low dose of alcohol on nonalcohol-dependent subjects.
(16) The purpose of this research was to examine the influence of day, afternoon, night and rotating shift schedules on the job performance and job-related stress of nurses.
(17) But there will be as much as George Osborne as Ed Balls or Miliband in today's budget delivered this afternoon in the Dail by two ministers: Fine Gael's Finance Minister Michael Noonon and Labour's Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, Brendan Howlin.
(18) 3.51pm GMT 116 min: John Motson says that Bobby Robson told him this afternoon that the five penalty takers, if needed, would be Lineker, Beardsley, Gascoigne, Pearce and Platt.
(19) On a snowless but chilly afternoon early in the Moscow winter, a 29-year-old man with a gaunt, emaciated face stepped on to the vast expanse of Red Square.
(20) Blood samples were taken from intact, freely moving rats via venous catheters at 6- to 10-min intervals for 3-4 h. LH pulse height and LH interpulse interval were quantified on each day of the cycle, and the transition on the afternoon of proestrus from tonic LH release to the preovulatory LH surge was detailed.