Example sentences of "few years later " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Did he know he would die a few years later ? |
| 4 | A few years later , Helen Gardner , in her inaugural lecture , lamented the ‘ pressure to publish ’ on people working in English studies : ‘ there is something peculiarly distasteful and peculiarly absurd about forced labour in my field . |
| 5 | It is not at all incongruous that Wilson , who thus insisted on Eliot 's Americanness , should a few years later , in his pioneering classic Axel 's Castle ( 1931 ) , insist on Eliot 's Frenchness , thus giving substance and weight to Untermeyer 's too glib acknowledgement of ‘ the Laforgue mechanism ’ . |
| 6 | A few years later Thomson recognised Cage as ‘ the most original composer in America , if not the world … ’ and Cage repaid the compliment by writing the works section of a monograph on Thomson . |
| 7 | The Germans killed six million and a few years later we invited them to be our guests over here ? |
| 8 | The V8 was put on ice when Lotus went through one of its regular periods of financial cramp in 1981 — but a few years later its key features were sold to GM in the shape of the LT5 engine for the Corvette ZR1 . |
| 9 | A few years later , with Atari in deep financial trouble , Nintendo was able to take over the US market too . |
| 10 | Although the large Gothic window of the chapel was replaced by a smaller one , and bay windows were added a few years later , it is still , in Pugin 's own words , ‘ the only modern building that is complete in every part in the ancient style ’ . |
| 11 | A few years later this latest manor house was built , and in 1928 almost the first double glazing ever seen in England was installed to combat the bitterly cold winds . |
| 12 | It was not until a few years later that I think his talent really started to manifest itself because you could n't quite think where it was going . |
| 13 | A few years later , visiting Moscow after passing through the Ukraine during the great famine , I was asked , ‘ How did North America expand west , but we have failed to expand east ? ’ |
| 14 | A few years later , between 1972 and 1975 , he had a spell with Warwickshire , during which time he returned to the Test team against Australia in 1972–3 — he had played only one other series in the meantime , against England in 1967–8 — and remained a fixture for the rest of the decade . |
| 15 | Ironically , a few years later Ken Clarke came under attack on the same issue . |
| 16 | A few years later Enright came to see me when I was working in Kuala Lumpur and he was Professor in Singapore . |
| 17 | A few years later , when a Japanese professor on holiday in England visited her in our other house in Bath , Hill House in Sion Road , he said to her , in the usual Japanese joky way : ‘ I 'm sure your son will be marrying some nice Japanese lady , Mrs Kirkup . ’ |
| 18 | A few years later he wrote Peter Pan for those who believed in fairies but did not want to believe in death . |
| 19 | This sombre event , which was reported in the London Times , may have stimulated the construction a few years later of a strange mausoleum in Paisley . |
| 20 | His complete acceptance of the ‘ protest ’ in ‘ Protestant ’ did not come till a few years later when some leading members of his Mount Merrion , Belfast , congregation insisted that he object to the Church 's ‘ street corner boy ’ activities of picketing the Irish Presbyterian Church General Assembly . |
| 21 | A Princeton professor who investigated the campaigns a few years later put it more bitterly : ‘ Cynical pseudo-egalitarianism replaced an older commitment to the maintenance of national standards . ’ |
| 22 | All that vanished with the invention of the printing press a few years later , but many of the books in the Corviniana were made in Italy at that time . |
| 23 | In that advocacy , he was subsequently to acknowledge he had been unaware of the problems arising from the Cambridge Board 's maturing plans for such appointments and the issue of providing powers which were to become particularly difficult and threatening to the District a few years later . |
| 24 | As has been seen , while the Napier Commission favoured the enlargement of the crofts to improve their economic viability , the legislation passed only a few years later tended instead to perpetuate them in their existing form . |
| 25 | In 1752 Horace Walpole instructed his brother , Ned , to collect tea seed ; Gilbert White came a few years later to discuss difficulties over growing melons at Selborne ; and Charles Hatton selected two pots of passion flower , ‘ lusty and strong ’ in April 1760 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A few years later , however , it passed into the ownership of Lord Gerald of Brandon , who sold it in 1682 , to the Speaker of the House of Commons , Sir Edward Seymour . |
| 28 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 29 | Modern plastics and silicones have made pipe connections so easy : no more messing about with tarred hemp and mortar , which inevitably cracked and leaked a few years later . |
| 30 | A few years later there were proposals for a National Curriculum in England and Wales under the law — a law which would provide , according to the government , ‘ a framework not a straitjacket ’ . |