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Afterwards


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Afterward

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (2) We knew it would be a strange match because they had to come out and play to win to finish third,” Benitez said afterwards.
  • (3) Afterwards in five cadavers the flow rate was increased until a herniation of the TA appeared.
  • (4) He told MPs that any steps taken to shore up the markets as a result of the referendum would be disclosed afterwards.
  • (5) Treatment was continuous for 3 months and 2 days weekly afterwards.
  • (6) Upon stimulation with NGF, the percentage of Ras.GTP increased to 24% after 2 min, and the high level of Ras.GTP was maintained for at least 16 h. On the other hand, the activation of Ras by FGF and IL-6 showed distinct kinetics; about 3-fold increase of Ras.GTP was detected at 10 min, and afterward, the level returned to the basal level within 60 min.
  • (7) "You could understand why I need another central defender," Mourinho said afterwards.
  • (8) Afterwards, the unemployed welder said: “I just didn’t like his attitude.
  • (9) Rabbit morulae and blastocysts were cultured in conventional culture media [Ham's F10 or BSM II supplemented with bovine serum albumin (BSA) or serum] or in Ham's medium supplemented with synchronous or asynchronous uterine flushings, mostly for 2 days, and afterwards investigated by light and electron microscopy and by autoradiography.
  • (10) He stayed silent when the teacher asked him a question and afterwards I found him standing in the middle of the classroom looking totally lost as everyone ran around.
  • (11) Removal of the interscapular brown adipose tissue from rats living at room temperature has no effect on the calorigenic response to adrenaline or noradrenaline, neither immediately afterwards nor 2-4 days later.4.
  • (12) Afterwards, he checked every detail to show me where I had painted badly.
  • (13) In kidney, the DNA methylase activity first increases up to 16 h and decreases afterwards.
  • (14) Twenty patients were studied before June 1983 (group 1), and 19 patients were studied afterward (group 2).
  • (15) They need not tilt the head backwards during inhalation or hold their breath afterwards.
  • (16) Significant concentrations were found in his serum and urine for several days afterwards.
  • (17) Standard ecg examination was carried out at the admission time, every 15 minutes during the first 2 hours, 3, 6, 12, 24 and 48 hours later, and afterwards in the same time as ECHO 2D.
  • (18) The measurements were made 3 days after the suppression of the drug and afterwards every 3 to 6 days for a month.
  • (19) Barcelona’s coach Luis Henrique said afterwards: “To lose Messi means that football loses.
  • (20) Whereas an increase in the number of C trachomatis infections, more pronounced among women, was observed up to 1986, a small decrease has been observed afterwards in males.

Beforehand


Definition:

  • (adv.) In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with.
  • (adv.) By way of preparation, or preliminary; previously; aforetime.
  • (a.) In comfortable circumstances as regards property; forehanded.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It is claimed that Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential candidate, was "starstruck" by his association with Eastwood and that the film-maker's speech was not vetted beforehand.
  • (2) The striatal dopaminergic input was extensively destroyed beforehand to preclude the possibility of reinnervation of the striatum by endogenous dopaminergic neurons.
  • (3) Chloroquine may be used as a provocative diagnostic test for patients with a questionably latent PCT but this is safe if phlebotomy is performed beforehand.
  • (4) Beforehand, the claim that the symport of L-glutamate with Na+ is linked to simultaneous antiport with K+ has been confirmed by the demonstration that equilibrium exchange of L-glutamate is inhibited by potassium.
  • (5) In the aortic strips which had been treated with Ca antagonists beforehand, nicorandil at all concentrations tested produced a long lasting relaxation, and the rhythmic contraction did not appear during exposure to nicorandil.
  • (6) Administration of propranolol (a beta-adrenoceptor blocking drug) beforehand did not prevent lipid mobilization.
  • (7) Eight dogs had been treated beforehand with a preparation of flavone extracted from the root of the Chinese medicinal herb Andrographis paniculata (TFAP).
  • (8) The two men walked through the grounds beforehand, and were to meet again on Wednesday.
  • (9) [The Sunday Mirror] ought to have the justification already in place ... One of the things about the code is that newspapers think beforehand,” he told a fringe meeting organised by the Media Standards Trust at the Tory party conference on Tuesday morning.
  • (10) Subodh Chandra, an attorney for Tamir’s mother Samaria, said they had been given no information about the announcement beforehand and had learned it was taking place through a public statement made by the county prosecutor’s office about an hour earlier.
  • (11) Let me know how you get on ... in due course.” His nest had been half empty for a while, in that my mother had died 10 years beforehand, and when I left for university, he was beginning a relationship with the charming woman who became my stepmother.
  • (12) In normotensive patients the filling pressure could often not be sufficiently lowered as a too severe reduction of arterial pressure occurred beforehand.
  • (13) The ability of spermatozoa to survive cryopreservation could not be predicted from the properties of the semen beforehand.
  • (14) Muirfield can "turn around on you in a heartbeat", Scott had warned beforehand, and so it proved once again.
  • (15) Procedures to be followed were carefully explained to all students beforehand.
  • (16) McKeown, the director of west coast operations, and Kirkham, said O’Reilly had in the moments beforehand irritated residents who were trying to put out fires and clear wreckage.
  • (17) was injected intravenously 20 minutes before operation in 4 patients but 24 hours beforehand in the remainder.
  • (18) He said beforehand that it would be "a weight off my shoulders, like going on holiday".
  • (19) A cone-shaped dilator is placed beforehand at the proximal end of the vertical limb of the T tube to facilitate the passage of that end through the stenotic subglottic space.
  • (20) May sound reassuring on the electoral doorstep but likely to be trashed beforehand by weary doctors and political opponents.