Example sentences of "[num] years 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Forty years after it all but vanished , the humble eel could be about to make a comeback . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Big Pit closed as a working colliery in 1980 , exactly 100 years after it first produced coal . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If England 's trip comes off it would follow 10 years after they played the last official Test against the Springboks at Johannesburg and would be the perfect dress-rehearsal if South Africa 's strong bid to stage the 1995 World Cup succeeds . |
| 14 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 15 | Towards the end of 1956 Eliot proposed to Valerie Fletcher , almost eight years after she had started working for him . |
| 16 | In August 1769 , eight years after it was opened , he enrolled as a student at the veterinary school in Lyons . |
| 17 | Meanwhile The Cement Garden is finally being shot in Britain by writer-director Andrew Birkin , with Andrew Robertson , Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack — eight years after it was bought . |
| 18 | The Mayors of York would often stay and hunt here , but the glory was short-lived , for William died eight years after he had built the house . |
| 19 | Rabia 's prayer has been a most inspiring one to me , living in Jerusalem 1100 years after she did . |
| 20 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 21 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 22 | Seventy five year old Reg Potter finally convinced the love of his life to marry him … fifty years after she first turned him down . |
| 23 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 24 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 25 | It was my father who started me off , about three years after we moved into the village dad joined the Debenham Players the local amateur dramatics society . |
| 26 | she was nearly retiring by the , no still the girls go to her at the school so she must have been going for , two or three years after we came up here , but I would be in the choir just , maybe two or three years . |
| 27 | Truly my living words could vindicate me ; ask Helen , if they would not. , The necessary complement to the epistolary picture of his Oxford life is his own book Oxford , published three years after he came down . |
| 28 | In 1959 , three years after he applied for German papers under his own name at the German embassy , he fled to Paraguay as the Frankfurt authorities issued the first warrant for his arrest . |
| 29 | Three years after he wrote this letter , Jeremy Taylor died of a fever in his diocese at the age of fifty-four . |
| 30 | My husband was banned for three years after he 'd killed me . ’ |