Example sentences of "[art] few years after [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 2 | Gladys Brown and her husband came to number ten quite a few years after we moved in . |
| 3 | Uplands kept its wholesaling operation going for a few years after I left , but it does n't exist any more ; I think the day of the really small wholesaler is gone . ’ |
| 4 | Oh he had that Cavalier for a few years after I sold it . |
| 5 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 6 | A most unforeseen occurrence cut short the Revd Dr William Dodd 's participation in this crusade when , a few years after he wrote his Account , he was charged with the capital offence of forgery . |
| 7 | Nothing could be less conclusive than this sensational ending to a turgid and inflated romance , nor does Rider Haggard 's elaborate initial paraphernalia of the letter and package coming to the author from Holly after the old man 's death convince one any more successfully of the ‘ tragedy ’ of the lovers than does the equally elaborate account of the ‘ letter and two packets ’ containing Leo Vincey 's family history and Holly 's account of the events of She which , we are asked to believe , reached the author a few years after he had first seen Holly and the golden-haired hero Leo Vincey in a Cambridge street . |
| 8 | O' course , I only knew him a few years after he got married . |
| 9 | I think my father used to work in a university for a few years after he graduated , and he might have invented something ; he occasionally hints that he gets some sort of royalty from a patent or something , but I suspect the old hippy survives on whatever family wealth the Cauldhames still have secreted away . |