Example sentences of "few years later [pers pn] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But a few years later he was up and ready to go to Ulster . |
| 2 | ( A few years later he was to complain about Eden wearing himself out by this frivolity . ) |
| 3 | A few years later he was accused of having speculated on the Paris Bourse , using official information . |
| 4 | He Anglicized his name and a few years later he was being described as an accountant or merchant 's clerk ; a subsequent attempt to establish himself as a commission agent apparently failed . |
| 5 | Haines assured me that everything at his end would remain secret , but a few years later I was both surprised and vexed to find that he had retailed the story in his memoirs without any indication of his pledge of confidentiality . |
| 6 | Somebody said , well a few years later it was Charles Manson and I said , who ? |