Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] later [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fifty minutes later shareholders at the annual meeting of United 's parent company were being assured by chairman Professor Roland Smith that cash was available any time Alex Ferguson wanted it — but no mention of the fiasco that had scorched the airwaves a short time before . |
| 2 | Money was found for school building projects , especially in EPAs , but ten years later 20% of all primary pupils were still being educated in pre-1903 buildings , many with outside lavatories . |
| 3 | In 1885 it is recorded that transparent thin sections of rocks were sent to London for microscopic investigation and 3 years later sections of English and Irish rocks were being made in Edinburgh . |
| 4 | Twelve years later computerisation of banking practices began . |
| 5 | He was accused of armed robbery of nearly £200 in January 1976 but 15 months later charges against him and 20 others were dropped . |
| 6 | The Housing Repairs and Rents Act , 1954 , reduced subsidies for general needs , but retained them for clearance of slums ; two years later subsidies for general needs were totally abolished , leaving the general housing need to be met by private enterprise . |