From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishthe following afternoon/month/page/chapter etcthe following afternoon/month/page/chapter etcTMCAFTERthe next afternoon, month etc OPP preceding He was sick in the evening, but the following day he was better. → following
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the following afternoon/month/page/chapter etc• Expansion and application of some of those ideas will be pursued in the following chapters.• I describe experiments making use of this criterion in the following chapter.• The receiving company went into liquidation the following month.• We examine these recurrent themes in the managers' first-year biographies in the following pages.• Early the following month a radiant Lucy walked up the aisle on her father's arm.• And she had returned the following afternoon, carrying Timmy on her hip and the rest of her possessions in a backpack.• In the following chapters, I emphasize what can be done, not what will be done. 