Example sentences of "[adj] year after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 2 | He still lives on the outskirts of his adopted city close on 30 years after he signed for them . |
| 3 | It was not for some years after we had separated that I had to face the fact that the deepest part of one 's being is always inaccessible to another , and that only when we are lost in passion , eager above all else for our own gratification — yet unconscious that this is the case — that we ignore the gulf , forget that we are strangers . |
| 4 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 5 | ONE HUNDRED and forty years after it vanished from Windsor Castle in mysterious circumstances , a pornographic drawing of an hermaphrodite angel by Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in Germany . |
| 6 | Forty years after it all but vanished , the humble eel could be about to make a comeback . |
| 7 | Six months after the Guardian article appeared , two and a half years after she was waved out of their hospital , South Manchester health authority finally agreed to supply a psychologist for two hours a week . |
| 8 | TWO and a half years after she made national headlines with her searing attack on George Bush at the 1988 Democratic national convention , Ann Richards was inaugurated as Texas 's 45th governor on January 15th . |
| 9 | An appearance by Reagan , Le Monde suggested , might still save the show , even two and a half years after it had started . |
| 10 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 11 | Within few years after she is in jar with another . |
| 12 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 13 | I did n't take much notice of it the first few years after I left school , but now I 've been gone , what , fifteen years or so , I find quite a lot of interest in what 's happened . |
| 14 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 15 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 16 | Malcolm Cole 's programme notes do n't specify the circumstances of the ‘ grim struggle for survival which left serious composition out of the question ’ for the first few years after he had settled in the United States in 1939 , but , whatever they were , they informed his music with an intensity that the exuberance of his early style did n't find much room for . |
| 17 | A most unforeseen occurrence cut short the Revd Dr William Dodd 's participation in this crusade when , a few years after he wrote his Account , he was charged with the capital offence of forgery . |
| 18 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 19 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 20 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |
| 21 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 22 | While other European Community countries are increasingly aware of the vulnerability of land , however , Britain 's pioneering national field-by-field soil survey remains incomplete , 53 years after it began . |
| 23 | THIS WEEK 'S best movie is the classic thriller , Body Heat ( Cert 18 ; W.E. ) , which is still sizzling 12 years after it was first released . |
| 24 | THE appearance of Sharron Davies in the swimming competition , 12 years after she won a medal in Moscow was a wonderful example of Olympic spirit at its best . |
| 25 | The substance of this report was that , almost 300 years after it had condemned Galileo for saying that the Earth revolved around the Sun , the Roman Catholic Church announced that it was to re-examine his case ‘ with full objectivity ’ . |
| 26 | The payout accounted for his entire career with the group , which ended in March this year after he left to join a US stores group . |
| 27 | He was finally given a pension , but by that time he was old , he was half paralysed , and he was nearly blind , and he died in eighteen thirty-six , only six years after he 'd received this recognition and this pension . |
| 28 | The EC is joining with countries bordering the Rhine in a plan to reintroduce salmon to the river , six years after it was declared ecologically-dead as a result of the Sandoz chemical plant . |
| 29 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |
| 30 | Carno Station , a Victorian granite relic of an earlier railway age , had been closed to passengers on 4 June 1965 , a little more than 100 years after it opened , and was now for sale . |