Example sentences of "later [vb past] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 Other countries soon welcomed the breed , including several in South America and southern Africa , and it later became the first foreign breed to be imported by Japan .
2 Lyric Fantasy , brilliant winner of the Queen Mary Stakes at Royal Ascot in June , later became the first two-year-old filly to win the all-aged Nunthorpe Stakes .
3 Athletics , to a more limited extent , commanded some attention , beginning in the late nineteenth century with Arthur Wharton who later became the first black footballer to play league soccer .
4 Fernandez later became the first major upset in the tournament when she lost 6–2 6–2 to fellow American Ginger Helgeson in the second round .
5 As North later described the first approaches to the Iran idea , Israeli officials talking to Americans in the spring and summer of 1985 , it was a ‘ philosophy ’ rather than an operation .
6 A few minutes later came the first gun-fire .
7 On 8 January 1959 he was officially inaugurated and two days later formed the first government of the new republic , headed by Michel Debré .
8 Emboldened by its example , Hong Kong 's Legislative Councillors decided that not less than half their number should be directly elected in 1995 , and the rest 10 years later ; they later scaled the first figure down to 40 per cent , to win the suport of more conservative interest groups .
9 He agreed to make two of these sails for us to try and we later purchased a third from association funds .
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