Example sentences of "a few years after [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a few years after that his sticky career came to an end when he and a friend called Gentle ( who was anything but ) murdered a woman called Josephine Chipperfield at her home in Easterhouse and wounded several of her family . |
| 2 | But I was n't into heroin on a full scale for a few years after that . |
| 3 | And er course , that where the restrictions was on see at the and of course , after that , a few years after that , of course take no notice of it now . |
| 4 | Even so , it took ‘ Ramshackle Mac ’ ( a sobriquet bestowed by his friend Lady Londonderry ) a few years after 1931 to achieve the full splendour of his hopelessness . |
| 5 | For a few years after 1413 a lease on the islands of Korcula , Hvar and Brac was obtained with the agreement of the Habsburg Emperor , Sigismund , but the Ragusans failed to maintain their position in face of the hostility of the islanders and the rivalries of their Venetian , Hungarian and Slav neighbours . |