Example sentences of "[num] year after the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | The building was eventually completed in 1880 , over 300 years after the first stone had been laid . |
| 2 | A RUINED castle is to be rebuilt , 750 years after the first brick of its historic predecessor was laid on the banks of the River Mersey . |
| 3 | Twenty-five years after the first American soldiers went into Vietnam , fifteen years after the falls of Saigon and Phnom Penh , the issue of Vietnam — Vietnam was America 's war ; now it belongs to the world . |
| 4 | Photosynthesis probably began to evolve about half a billion years after the first living things appeared — about three billion years ago — and so the process of oxygenating the atmosphere began . |
| 5 | Last year it introduced its second-generation Legend saloon just four years after the first model was launched . |