After three months of research, I can state unequivocally that Los Angeles drivers are considerably more courteous and competent than any other drivers I've ever encountered.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

After promoting Frost's appearance at the Inauguration, he persuaded the poet to return several months later to give a reading to a select audience of Cabinet members, members of Congress, and other Washington notables gathered in the State Department auditorium.

After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

After being closed for seven months, the Garden of the Gods Club will have its gala summer opening Saturday, June 3.

After the surprise was over, Linda was almost as pleased as anyone with John's good luck, though she agreed with Bobbie's decision some months later to move to Funk Furnaces.

After three months, they begin supervised foraging and by four months are normally independent.

After the longest reign since Augustus ( surpassing Tiberius by a couple of months ), Antoninus died of fever at Lorium in Etruria, about twelve miles ( 19 km ) from Rome, on 7 March 161, giving the keynote to his life in the last word that he uttered when the tribune of the night-watch came to ask the password —" aequanimitas " ( equanimity ).

After Roman times, Einhard mentions that in 765 – 6 Pippin the Younger spent both Christmas and Easter at Aquis villa (""), which must have been sufficiently equipped to support the royal household for several months.

* 1555 – After 18 months of siege, Siena surrenders to the Florentine-Imperial army.

After the Ark had been among them for seven months, the Philistines, on the advice of their diviners, returned it to the Israelites, accompanying its return with an offering consisting of golden images of the tumors and rats wherewith they had been afflicted.

After Albert's death, Victoria spent increasing periods at Balmoral, staying up to four months a year during early summer and autumn.

After 3 months of provisional government, Déby ’ s Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) approved a national charter on February 28, 1991, with Déby as president.

After three months of intense work, he predicted a position for Ceres in December 1801 — just about a year after its first sighting — and this turned out to be accurate within a half-degree when it was rediscovered by Franz Xaver von Zach on 31 December at Gotha, and one day later by Heinrich Olbers in Bremen.

After some months of test broadcasts, it began scheduled transmissions on 2 November 1982.

After several difficult months following the death of Camille in September, 1879, a grief-stricken Monet ( resolving never to be mired in poverty again ) began in earnest to create some of his best paintings of the 19th century.

After seven months the Grandees in the New Model Army removed him and, on 6 May 1659, they reinstalled the Rump Parliament.

After many months of negotiation, agreement was reached between Hydro Quebec and Rediffusion on February 28, 1950 for an initial 5 year period.

After six months he moved to Raleigh and worked with Johnnie and Jack before heading for Richmond, Virginia, where he performed with Sunshine Sue Workman.

After a few months, this engagement was called off.

After a few months with no success by the French, he added other aircraft to drop napalm for clearing purposes.

After signing a letter of submission and promising never to write anything prejudicial against the religion again ( with the result that his most controversial works were henceforth published only after his death ), Diderot was released from the dungeons of the Vincennes fortress after three months.

After his release, Ortega was exiled to Cuba, where he received several months of guerrilla training.

After months of chaos in Kabul, Mohammad Akbar Khan secured local control and in April 1843 his father Dost Mohammad, who had been released by the British, returned to the throne in Afghanistan.

After a brief but fierce storm sent up against the group at Juno's request, Aeneas and his fleet made landfall at Carthage after six years of wanderings.

After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

After fierce fighting, the Carthaginians were defeated and the city fell.

After this fierce combat, with more than 50 % losses in some of the attacking units, the Whites re-organized their troops and their plans, and resumed the attack in the early hours of 3 April.

After seven days of fierce fighting, the battle in the north for Tel el Eisa salient petered out.

After several days of fierce fighting, the Portuguese forces retreated without achieving most of their goals.

* 1940 – World War II: After fierce fighting, the poorly trained and equipped Dutch troops surrender to Germany, marking the beginning of five years of occupation.

* 1917 – World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

After defeating King Porus in the fierce Battle of the Hydaspes ( modern day Jhelum ), his battle weary troops refused to advance further into India to engage the formidable army of Nanda Dynasty and its vanguard of trampling elephants, new monstorities to the invaders.

After India discovered the infiltration, a fierce Indian offensive nearly led to a full-scale war.

After a fierce campaign ( see also Second Dacian War ), the Dacian capital, Sarmizegetusa Regia, was destroyed.

After fierce fighting, a French flag flies above it and Napoleon asks Soult to write a letter to Paris that the battle and the war have been won.

** WWI: Battle of Passchendaele: After 3 months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.

After fierce resistance, Vitiges routs in panic, and many are slain or drowned in the river.

After the Byzantines were betrayed by Admiral Euphemius, who fled to Tunisia and begged the Aghlabid leader Ziyadat Allah to help him, there was a Muslim conquest of Sicily in 831, which took until 904 against fierce resistance.

After fierce fighting, Budapest was taken by the Soviets.

After Frederick's death, the struggle against Thomas II of Savoy became fierce: the Astigiani defeated him on February 23, 1255, at the Battle of Montebruno, but Thomas ( who had been taken prisoner ) replied ordering all traders from Asti to be arrested in Savoy and France.

After 4 years of fierce fighting Nineveh was sacked in 612 BC after a bitter prolonged siege in which Sin-shar-ishkun was killed.

After fierce fighting, the city was taken by the Germans in November 1941.

After some fierce fighting, in which the Earl of Gloucester was knocked off his horse, the knights of the vanguard were forced to retreat to the Tor Wood.

After a fierce resistance, Marius committs suicide.

After the war, there was fierce debate within the cash-strapped British armed forces as to the value of airborne forces.

After a fierce battle in the dark the attackers captured General Laza Petrović, head of the Palace Guard, and forced him to reveal the hiding place of King Alexander Obrenović and his wife Queen Draga.

After fierce fighting in the Battle of Panormus, the Carthaginians, led by Hasdrubal, are defeated and the city falls.

After fierce debate among the colonies, it was finally agreed to declare their independence from Britain, and in 1776, the Declaration of Independence was signed, formally and officially breaking all ties with the former mother country.