Example sentences of "year after [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AJAX , disqualified from European competition for two years after their fans had caused the abandonment of a UEFA Cup tie , had the punishment halved on appeal yesterday . |
| 2 | 18 years after their mother died , Wendy Warman and Rosemary Begbie want to know why . |
| 3 | A man has been accused of murdering his wife — 10 years after her body was found in the Grand Union Canal at Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire . |
| 4 | Two years after her second child was born her husband was diagnosed with a terminal illness . |
| 5 | Four years after her husband died she returned from the United States to marry her foster father , Mr Taylor , who was then a widower : |
| 6 | Loss of earnings and career prospects can be a serious matter for someone who knows that she is going to have to support herself for many years after her parents have gone ; and unless the home in which they are living is owned by them , and left to her in their will , she is also going to have to provide accommodation for herself when they die . |
| 7 | Tina said a terrible thing to her when she was seventeen , two years after her father died . |
| 8 | Then , two or three years after her periods stopped , she encountered vaginal dryness . |
| 9 | This dry contempt strolls out even when its target is invisible : the narrator telephones the Fonsteins ' house years after they have lost contact and is answered by a young man , on whom he forms an immediate image — ‘ a thick head of hair , a beer paunch , a T-shirt with a logo or slogan . |
| 10 | The analysis of a group of such SAP projects will be meaningful only in about ten years after they became fashionable — that is in about 1995 . |
| 11 | Parents usually keep their children at home for a couple of years after they have completed their six years of compulsory education . |
| 12 | The procedures took so long that much needed links were not built until years after they were required . |
| 13 | No shakes and rattles as trams roll back the years Forty-three years after they left , Trevor Bates reports on today 's return of trams to Manchester |
| 14 | Two years after they had been married , Elinor had suddenly , mysteriously , developed a weakness in her legs , and Henry , who , equally mysteriously , in those days was n't trying to kill her , had hurried her to the local hospital where the doctors had diagnosed — wait for it — polyneuritis . |
| 15 | Perhaps the last word might go to L. R. McColvin , whose views on the relationship between book provision and demand make interesting reading 35 years after they were written . |
| 16 | Thanks to an amendment in 1989 to the 1985 Representation of the People Act , Britons may continue to vote by proxy for up to 20 years after they leave the country . |
| 17 | For two years after they married , she put up with his violent temper which once led him to throw her across the lawn and punch her , breaking bones in her hand and finger . |
| 18 | UNION leaders yesterday paved the way for the electricians to be readmitted to the TUC — four years after they were expelled . |
| 19 | They will also want to see 2,500 voting papers from another NUS election which mysteriously turned up seven years after they should have been destroyed . |
| 20 | Five years after they split , they are more influential than ever and their back catalogue is about to be reissued . |
| 21 | Norman Broadbent , 2½ years after they were founded , was acquired by Charles Barker plc , a quoted company , as discussed in Chapter 1 . |
| 22 | ‘ Now , ye were born tae years after they were married . |
| 23 | And er I think there were some of them still in use about fifty years after they were made . |
| 24 | Lear 's letters to Gould in the years after they parted company were long , funny , warm and chatty ; but they were also the letters of a nostalgic and lonely expatriate . |
| 25 | Finally , back to Stoke Mandeville and the return tonight of Bilal Shabib , and Samir Medina , five years after they were rescued from almost certain death in the civil war in Lebanon . |
| 26 | For over a thousand years after they last struck terror into the hearts of Irishmen , the Vikings were back and ready to plunder . |
| 27 | Two years after they separated , Ted travelled to Northern Ireland without telling Joan and persuaded her to leave . |
| 28 | This is known as the punch drunk syndrome , where victims suffer slurred speech , poor balance and memory loss and dementia years after they have stopped boxing . |
| 29 | FOUR US marines were laid to rest in Virginia nearly 26 years after they were killed in Vietnam . |
| 30 | So two years after they married and as the couple face divorce , Isabelle Duchesnay is a sadder and wiser woman , aware now that she would always have come second to his work in her husband 's affections and that , because of her role in Chris 's life , Jayne Torvill turned into the spectre at the feast . |