The phrase "after the clock strikes" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate a specific time or moment, often associated with the striking of an hour on a clock, typically in a narrative or poetic context.
Example: "We will meet in the garden after the clock strikes twelve, when the moonlight bathes the flowers in silver."
Alternatives: "once the hour chimes" or "when the bell tolls".
(What happens after the clock strikes twelve?) The demotion of humans to geologic insignificance plays conveniently into the arguments of those who deny the magnitude of our affronts to the planet in that last second.
1.05pm GMT Third set: *Robson 2-6, 6-7, 6-7 Kvitova (denotes next server) After the clock strikes midnight in Melbourne, Kvitova comes alive, storming 40-15 up.
And now President Bush has his cabinet and staff busily writing far-reaching rules to keep his priorities on the environment, public lands, homeland security, health and safety in place long after the clock strikes midnight and his presidential limousine turns into a pumpkin.
Even after the clock strikes midnight.
A couple of weeks before her birthday, "he sent a Trojan horse into my apartment," Ms. Justus said of the huge box, wrapped in shiny purple paper, that she finally ripped open after the clock struck midnight on Feb. 26.
But seldom has a bizarre set of circumstances ever occurred that left them with the sick and sinking feeling they had shortly after the clock struck midnight Wednesday night at Camden Yards.
Yet even after the clock struck 12, Hungary seemed to soften, letting a few hundred stragglers enter its territory via a legal foot-crossing that lies in Horgoš, a mile to the west of those train tracks.
The law changed at midnight, with a number of gay couples vying to claim the title of being the first to be married in Britain by trying to time it perfectly so their vows were said just seconds after the clock struck midnight.
After the clock struck zero on the Dallas Cowboys' 30-23 win, an emotional Baldwin walked right up to quarterback Russell Wilson and went on an impassioned rant.
