Example sentences of "years later " in BNC.
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| 1 | In books and interviews he has reminded the world that the French Surrealist poet Aragon , having praised Kundera 's excellent novel The Joke in 1968 , and having fulminated against the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia — his legs would ‘ refuse ’ to take him to Russia any more — made it to Moscow four years later ; and that another French poet , Eluard , abandoned his Prague friend , the Surrealist Kalandra , to the executioner . |
| 2 | It was three years later that I did finally audition , at seventeen . |
| 3 | An adoption bill eventually became law two years later , in 1952 , under the next administration . |
| 4 | Projection of another dimension or dimensions as when the sun breaks through a cloud and washing-up powder , launderette , what else was Jacob 's ladder ? he wrote , and Goldberg , staring at his friend 's manuscript all those years later , typed that in and put a little question mark in the margin of his typescript . |
| 5 | Two years later he bought the property ‘ out of love ’ from Verger for £280,000 , and promptly set about a £3m renovation that included a new restaurant , spacious kitchens employing 19 staff and 10 luxury bedroom suites affiliated to Relais et Châteaux . |
| 6 | This noticeboard had already played a significant part in my life : nearly thirty years before then it had displayed the result of my own first degree ( second-class honours ) ; a few years later had come the perfunctory notice saying my doctoral thesis had been accepted by the college ; and shortly after that an even briefer note to the effect that I had joined the teaching staff . |
| 7 | If I had elected to stay there , I probably would not have become homeless five years later . |
| 8 | Now , five years later my pond is well-stocked with plants and fish , and I am able to give out plants in turn . |
| 9 | It may be some months or even years later when , for the first time they over-correct from a practice stall , they experience a substantial reduction in ‘ g ’ loading . |
| 10 | Twenty-five years later in West Mercia , as a newly promoted superintendent , I listened at my first conference as my peers discussed a chief constable 's agreement which allowed officers to discard ties in hot weather and wear open-necked shirts . |
| 11 | Four years later , as I mentioned above , I was party to the same fear at Bramshill , in relation to the use of the Nato sweater . |
| 12 | When she finally screamed it out at her mother four years later , her mother said : |
| 13 | Years later , in a moment of youthful self-disclosure , his grandson commented through one of his fictional characters , ‘ It did n't matter to him how he faced the congregation : his grandfather had built the synagogue . ’ |
| 14 | To be sure , he still upheld the standards of his father ; he played a full role in the family business on the manufacturing side , but the crown went to his younger brother , Horace , who had not only secured field-promotion to Captain , but went on to bring the family business — and his industry — to new heights , for which he was awarded the OBE several years later . |
| 15 | Years later he said in ‘ The Telephone ’ : |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that he was devoted to his father — his first book , published 13 years later , was dedicated ‘ To the memory of my father : Nathan B. Cohen ’ and there are a number of references to him in Leonard 's work . |
| 17 | And the day of the funeral , recalled in a quasi-fictionalised form 18 years later , was no less memorable or searing : Breavman 's mother had stayed alone in her room leaving ‘ Nursie ’ to get the children ready . |
| 18 | As he said to us 42 years later , ‘ I was interested in some kind of sense , that I descended from Aaron , that I was some kind of high priest . |
| 19 | It had a marked effect on those who read his poetry , and a few years later Leonard was to find himself tutored by one of Pound 's most sympathetic admirers and directed to the understanding of the American 's verse , somewhat to Leonard 's concern , as we shall see . |
| 20 | Two years later , incredibly , the very same thing happened , at the very same spot . |
| 21 | Some years later he and Dudek parted company ; the former being too much the evangelist-propagandist for the ‘ pure ’ scholar . |
| 22 | Twenty years later he could still recall the event : ‘ I can think about my loyal dog buried in the snow , ’ ( Death Of A Lady 's Man ) . |
| 23 | The scenery was grim , the food was unappetising , fashion was all but non-existent ( he did buy a Burberry raincoat — his ‘ famous blue raincoat ’ — which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later ) , the arts were struggling , almost moribund , despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis , John Osborne , Colin Wilson , and Alan Sillitoe ; and the weather was atrocious . |
| 24 | Fifty-five years later , Hans Berger , a psychiatrist working in Jena , reported similar fluctuations in humans and discovered that , in a resting subject , this electroencephalogram ( EEG ) oscillated at a regular eight cycles a second , a pattern he called the alpha rhythm . |
| 25 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 26 | Five years later , he created the original cotton pique shirt embroidered with the famous crocodile . |
| 27 | It is an interesting thought that had John Ellicott not donated one of his magnificent clocks to mark his benefaction , the greed of a contract thief nearly 250 years later would have never taken place — and my humble tribute to this great gentleman , philanthropist and scientist , would never have been built . |
| 28 | All this had a dramatic effect on station catering 's turnover , up from £33.1 million in 1978 to £62.8million seven years later . |
| 29 | Eventually , however , Taylor Walker fell victim of Ind Coope in 1959 , closing two years later . |
| 30 | BEFORE the acquisition of Hoare 's , Charrington 's had bought several other East End brewers ; the other half of the Wiltshire brewery in Bethnal Green ; Savill Brothers ' Stratford Brewery , Maryland Point in 1925 , the year it closed its Burton brewery ; and two years later Tilney 's Alma brewery , Spelman Street , Whitechapel , founded in 1854 . |