Example sentences of "few years later [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
2 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
6 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
7 | 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 . |
8 | A few years later he accepted it himself . |
9 | A few years later he was accused of having speculated on the Paris Bourse , using official information . |
10 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
11 | In the late seventeenth century he came to India , gained a prominent post in the Imperial army and married into the Mughal aristocracy ; a few years later he succeeded his father-in-law as Nawab ( Governor ) of Oudh . |
12 | And then the next time , a few years later he 'd got it back |
13 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
14 | A few years later I told him how much I loved his way of telling stories . |
15 | I got quite good ones actually cos I got two children next to each other and a few years later I got them to do it again but I do n't know if I can find them all . |
16 | A few years later it would be Elizabeth 's brother Samuel who would step into the breach at a time of crisis , as we shall see , but in 1808 it was Thomas Hasted , as the newly-weds skirted round the northern edge of the Tower and established themselves just inside the parish of St Mary Whitechapel . |
17 | A few years later it 's chocs away for Rovers ' new regime at Wolves on Saturday . |
18 | Somebody said , well a few years later it was Charles Manson and I said , who ? |