Example sentences of "[num] [noun] after his " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can never forget how he used to come over in the evening from Bembridge School to sit with me after my son died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-seven , only eight months after his marriage . |
| 2 | In the 12 months after his arrest Vernage said nothing to police about the murders . |
| 3 | Despite Saint-Simon 's extraordinary prominence , it was not until 30 years after his death in 1826 that two of his disciples , the brothers Jacob and Isaac Pereire , established the first entrepreneurial bank , the Crédit Mobilier , and ushered in what we now call ‘ finance capitalism . ’ |
| 4 | Today , 30 years after his death , Lewis is remembered more as the author of such enchanting children 's stories as The Lion , the Witch and the Wardrobe than as a writer and broadcaster on ethical and religious questions , but it is one of those BBC sermons which he delivers at the beginning of this play . |
| 5 | Tomorrow night 's South Bank Show will profile the great man himself 30 years after his death . |
| 6 | Today there are thousands of trained teachers throughout the world carrying on his work nearly forty years after his death . |
| 7 | Previously shown at Washington 's Corcoran Gallery , where the tour was launched almost exactly forty years after his first one-person exhibition held at the Betty Parsons Gallery in 1951 ; at the Menil Foundation in Houston and at Chicago 's Museum of Contemporary Art , ‘ Robert Rauschenberg : The Early 1950s ’ concentrates upon the artist 's activity between 1949 , when he enrolled at Black Mountain College after a short apprenticeship in Paris , and 1954 , when he embarked upon the most important series of works of his career , the combine paintings and constructions . |
| 8 | JOHN DUNS Scotus , long referred to as ‘ Blessed ’ , has at last officially been given that exalted position by the Roman Catholic Church , almost 700 years after his death . |
| 9 | In a newspaper interview , he 's criticised his father , the Duke of Marlborough as thoughtless and insensitive , for going hunting just 2 days after his daughter-in-law 's accident . |
| 10 | I had no desire to share the fate of Galileo , with whom I feel a strong sense of identity , partly because of the coincidence of having been born exactly 300 years after his death ! |
| 11 | IN THE Pilkington Glass World Chess Championship semi-finals at Sadler 's Wells , the former world champion , Anatoly Karpov , has taken a 2-1 lead after his opponent , Artur Yusupov , resigned the adjourned third game of their match yesterday . |
| 12 | At first the powers showed little interest , as they were preoccupied with the post-Napoleonic settlement , following the Emperor 's final abdication on 22 June after his defeat at Waterloo four days earlier . |
| 13 | John Martyn considered this publication of enough importance to warrant his presenting another account to the Royal Society , only six months after his dissertation on the Dictionary . |
| 14 | It has to be emphasised that the committee worked always in the shadow of the law : Section 132 of the Public Health Act 1875 had said that any expenses incurred by a local authority in maintaining in a hospital a patient who is not a pauper , should be deemed to be a debt due from such patient to the local authority , and could be recovered from him at any time within six months after his discharge from the hospital . |
| 15 | Hindley himself died six months after his sister Catherine . |
| 16 | Six months after his early takeover of the presidency from Raul Alfonsín on July 8 , 1989 [ see p. 36810 ] , Carlos Menem 's popularity was in sharp decline . |
| 17 | He can hardly talk , almost certainly ca n't see and although he was at the funeral probably does n't even realise that his son died in another road accident six months after his . |
| 18 | Parson and White 's Gazeteer of Westmorland , published in 1829 six years after his death , records him ‘ residing some years at Keswick before settling in Ambleside ’ , which can not be true since he was certainly in London in the 1790's . |
| 19 | Now , 100 years after his birth , we should celebrate the sunshine days of one who gave so much gladness to so many . |
| 20 | About 10 years after his death , in 1838 , the score was discovered in the castle archives , and sold to the imperial court library . |
| 21 | His mother had driven their secondhand Jaguar into a concrete wall six weeks after his father 's death . |
| 22 | Six weeks after his burial , the Dragoons discovered his grave and dug up his corpse . |
| 23 | Only two points separated the two mend going into the Italian Grand Prix at Monza when , six weeks after his accident , Lauda was back behind the wheel and , amazingly , increased his lead in the championship with a fourth place after Hunt failed to finish . |
| 24 | The GP visited again 10 days after his first call and asked that I continue to review the wound regularly and alter the dressings as necessary . |
| 25 | Richard Cox did not live long enough to see the triumph of his apple , for he died in Colnbrook 20 May 1845 , eight years after his wife Ann . |
| 26 | His successors , during the seventy-five years after his death in 1725 , added Lithuania , parts of Poland and the Ukraine , Bessarabia , the Crimea and the Kuban region . |
| 27 | Everybody was talking about Christopher Columbus in 1992 , 500 years after his epic voyages . |
| 28 | As a rule the right is first vested in the author , and continues for fifty years after his death ; but in the case of photographs and gramophone records the original owner of the negative or plate is treated as the author , and the right lasts for fifty years from the time when the negative or plate was made . |
| 29 | It says much for the resilience of the club , however , that for most of this period a healthy League position was held ( lowest finishing place was fourteenth in 1966 ) and Chapman would be proud to know that , nearly fifty years after his death , Arsenal are the longest surviving member of the First Division . |
| 30 | The French art world is already handicapped by the droit de suite of 3% which also exists in seven other European countries but not in Britain , payable to an artist and his relatives for up to fifty years after his death . |