Example sentences of "[adj] year later [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He banged it into us very successfully , but singing Mozart 's Requiem 30 years later I found I knew most of it by heart . |
| 2 | What we 're actually lo doing here is those of longer members who remember we used to have a thing called the area health authority which was proposed in a three tier structure by a corporation called the McKenzie corporation at great expense charity governed by three quarters of a million pounds to invent structure of the National Health Service nineteen seventy two some years later they came back and said , well give us another million pounds and we 'll go back and look at it again , and say actually we were wrong , and they abolished the areas , and produced districts ! |
| 3 | Some years later I was at dinner with Brian Huggett and he got up and said , ‘ I should n't be talking to this man because he robbed me of the British Open . |
| 4 | Julia is like that too , so that some years later I asked Elizabeth if she herself looked at the world in that way . |
| 5 | Some years later it appeared from a decision in the Chancery Division that the tolls had been unlawfully demanded and the plaintiff sued for their recovery . |
| 6 | Some years later he and Dudek parted company ; the former being too much the evangelist-propagandist for the ‘ pure ’ scholar . |
| 7 | He believed it to work in scenes rather than in its entirety , and in a lecture some years later he criticized himself for not properly developing the action and for failing to adapt the classical theme to a contemporary situation . |
| 8 | Although some years later he was to describe the kind of people with whom he now associated in a less than enthusiastic manner , it was really only in such company that he could feel any sense of purposefulness . |
| 9 | Some years later he commented on this to Minton who gave an insight into their insouciance : draw in the morning , when fresh , he advised , so that you can enjoy yourself in the afternoon . |
| 10 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 11 | Some years later he took a disciple named Chen Chia Kou and taught him everything he knew . |
| 12 | Some years later he met Mr Parkinson again during a campaign meeting for the Penrith and Borders constituency . |
| 13 | Forty-five years later he 's returned to his roots , with a retrospective display of his favourite surrealist paintings . |
| 14 | Forty years later we are in a stage of chaos and doubt . |
| 15 | Jack appreciated that thirty or forty years later he might never have been born . |
| 16 | Forty years later it rings true . |
| 17 | Forty years later I am still sure I was right . |
| 18 | Forty years later she |
| 19 | Four-and-a half years later we were all reunited , back in the tiny flat in Wandsworth . |
| 20 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 21 | Two and a half years later he was a four-handicapper , but then he broke his leg in two places playing football and missed a whole season . |
| 22 | But two and a half years later he was front page news . |
| 23 | Four and a half years later I am returning with three of my children and my husband . |
| 24 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 25 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 26 | Payments terminated on 31 May 1753 , but evidently no ill feeling marred the end of Miller 's contract as a few years later he dedicated to the Duke the beautiful Figures of Plants ( 2 vols. ) which had been published in parts from 1755–60 . |
| 27 | A few years later he discovered , to his fury , that the painters ' prices had soared and the paintings that he despised would have been immensely valuable . |
| 28 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 29 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 30 | When Edith had met Joss Campbell a few years later he had been so glad for her , because Joss was older than Edith and was more than a match for Nancy . |