Example sentences of "but [num] [noun] later the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Watson 's 1844 plan shows at least twenty-eight thatched buildings , but eleven years later the town had only two . |
| 2 | In 1923 , the collection opened to the public , but ten years later the mansion was declared a fire hazard and the paintings were moved to the recently built Philadelphia Museum of Art . |
| 3 | But five months later the peasants were back . |
| 4 | In 1740 Britain exported about £0.7m. to North America and about the same amount to the West Indies , but twenty years later the West Indies took £1m. and the mainland took £2m. , while imports from the West Indies ran at £1.8m. and from the mainland at £0.6m . |
| 5 | The couple decided against surgery but 15 years later the failure figure had dropped to only 20 pc and they decided to take the plunge . |
| 6 | The unprecedented judgment was then published in the All England Law Reports but two months later the grant of letters was ruled void by another judge . |
| 7 | A fine of $200,000 for violating customs laws brought her collecting to a halt in 1904 , but two years later the museum was open and Mrs Gardner was collecting again . |
| 8 | But two years later the earth-moving equipment to build the dams had still to arrive , and the bush-clearing programme , optimistically assigned to the Masai moran ( men of the warrior age-group ) , had made no progress at all . |
| 9 | Eppelmann and a member of the commission overseeing the dissolution of the Stasi had proposed implementing such a procedure on March 21 , but two days later the state prosecutor , supported by both de Maizière and the PDS-led caretaker government [ for formation of which see p. 37260 ] , maintained that such a step would be unconstitutional and that the new Volkskammer had to decide itself what should be done . |
| 10 | On Jan. 4 miners ' leaders had called for a temporary halt to the march , after an offer by Prime Minister Yildirim Akbulut to hold talks , but two days later the march was resumed after union leaders had rejected a government offer of a 250 per cent pay rise . |
| 11 | But seven minutes later the blue ringer Toyota Hiace van exploded ripping buildings . |