I think this dual-meaning for 'after' is quite common, at least in Ireland and UK (and Australia). Here's an example in lieu of a formal citation: 1. After get

I think this dual-meaning for 'after' is quite common, at least in Ireland and UK (and Australia). Here's an example in lieu of a formal citation: 1. After getting dinner, Alice and Bob met friends at a local bar - Purely temporal, one thing followed the other 2. After hearing Alice recommend her gym, Bob signed up for a membership. - Causal (and temporal of course): because of the first thing, the second thing happened You can disambiguate this in many ways, the most common in my experience is to make explicit the time "Darwin discovered the theory of evolution many years after studying finches on the Galápagos Islands"