Complex sentence: Ned Flynn from Andersontown was the next prisoner to don the blanket, followed by six more republican prisoners from the Beechmount area of Belfast, by Christmas 1976 the number had risen to over forty prisoners on protest.
Split into simpler sentences: Ned Flynn from Andersontown was the next prisoner to don the blanket, followed by six more republican prisoners from the Beechmount area of Belfast. By Christmas 1976 the number had risen to over forty prisoners on protest.