Example sentences of "and [adj] year later [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 2 | She married solicitor , David Ashby in 1974 , and six years later they parted . |
| 3 | However , his reign was to be a short one , for in 1191 he contracted a serious illness , and six years later he died . |
| 4 | When , on 1 January 1766 , the Old Pretender died in Rome , aged 77 , his elder son assumed the title of Charles III and six years later he at last married , but his wife bore no children . |
| 5 | France were not part of the tournament in 1892 , and 100 years later I would be reluctant to predict precisely what their impact will be this time round , Villepreux or no ! |
| 6 | Lean times were to follow and three years later we find him using the backs of sheets of his Jedburgh map to draw a privately commissioned plan . |
| 7 | In 1949 , on the strength of his military experience , he was appointed to the Ministry of Defence ; and three years later he was seconded to the UK Delegation to Nato . |
| 8 | When he was eleven he attended Dartford Grammar School , and three years later he went to Tonbridge School , where his main interests continued to centre on literature and the natural world . |
| 9 | In 1957 he was appointed relief manager for their branches throughout London and three years later he became their Holloway branch manager , moving to Ilford as the manager in 1963 and on to Southend-on-Sea as depot manager in 1973 . |
| 10 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 11 | And 18 years later he was still there , serving as equerry to the Maharajah of Rewa . |
| 12 | I went to Grenoble and discovered they had a small project on the outskirts , which had been a piece of wasteland ; they ploughed it all down , replanned it , had a complete new housing estate , hotel , the lot , in less than five years , where the City Council would be thinking about which bit of land to use , what to put there , how to do it , and ten years later they might think about producing a plan , and ten years after that ( that 's twenty years on ) something would appear . |
| 13 | Moreover , it broadcast only for about four hours each evening ; and ten years later it was still on air only 60 per cent as much as BBC1 . |
| 14 | In 1871 he was described as farmer of 20 acres and ten years later he had 28 acres . |
| 15 | And 50 years later I remain convinced of this . |
| 16 | Maladministration took its toll , and fifteen years later it amalgamated with another Hull organisation , the Hull Seamen 's Mutual Association ( 1881 ) to form the Hull Seamen and Marine Firemen 's Mutual Association led by that self same staid and stable personality J.B.Butcher who continued to lead the union until his retirement in 1912 . |
| 17 | But Richard had not forgotten and seventeen years later he wanted it remembered — however lightheartedly — that he had conquered there , too . |
| 18 | Tony Revell began experimenting with guitars at the age of fourteen , and five years later he landed a position working with Chris May and Andy Preston , refining his skills while turning out Overwater electrics . |
| 19 | Leopold 's own career progressed slowly and unadventurously : by 1758 he had risen up the ranks to become second violin , and also court and chamber composer , and five years later he became deputy kapellmeister ( the German term for the musician in charge of a musical establishment ) . |
| 20 | In 1885 he became university lecturer in advanced invertebrate morphology and five years later he became superintendent of the University Museum of Zoology . |
| 21 | At the time it might be great and five years later I think , ‘ Why did I do that ? ’ but sometimes it 's the only way of finding something out . |
| 22 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 23 | 2 This only served to make us redouble our efforts and two years later we proved it was possible . |
| 24 | Then in 534 they overthrew the kingdom of the Burgundians , and two years later they were ceded the majority of the territory held by the Goths in Provence . |
| 25 | and two years later she died and his luck went out , |
| 26 | She and Bob Norrie were divorced and two years later she married again and changed her name to Norrie-Walker . |
| 27 | In August 1910 she suffered a heart attack , and two years later she had a stroke which left her a paralysed cripple . |
| 28 | On promotion to Chief Inspector in 1988 , he moved to Fratton and two years later he was appointed second-in-command of the community relations department at police headquarters in Winchester . |
| 29 | In the Yeats memorial lecture in Dublin , for example , he talked about the theatre as a medium for " the expression of the consciousness of a people " and two years later he castigated the failure of most poetic drama to evoke the rhythms of " colloquial speech " ; he returned to this theme a year later when , in a preface to S. L. Bethell 's Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition , he described the language of poetic drama as the language which people " would speak today if they could speak in poetry " . |
| 30 | In 1962 he was invited to join the Ferrari team and two years later he was world champion when he pipped Graham Hill by one point . |