Example sentences of "years after it [was/were] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The technique in question is Bob Blake 's Managerial Grid , still going strong 30 years after it was developed in the US , and likely to show new life in the UK now that management consultants P-E International have taken on the somewhat dusty licence . |
| 2 | THE AUTHOR , Salman Rushdie , yesterday condemned the death edict against him as a ‘ terrorist threat ’ after Iran renewed its call for the sentence to be carried out four years after it was imposed . |
| 3 | A package of unpublished music manuscripts by one of the country 's most eminent composers of brass band music has been rediscovered fifty years after it was written … and as Clare Lafferty reports , its about to have its first performance . |
| 4 | The EC is joining with countries bordering the Rhine in a plan to reintroduce salmon to the river , six years after it was declared ecologically-dead as a result of the Sandoz chemical plant . |
| 5 | So popular was the film that , a month after its opening , AIP decided to release Madigan 's Millions , two years after it was made , to cash in on Dustin 's name , double-billing it in the USA with Fearless Frank , films both actors rather hoped had been dead and buried . |
| 6 | Thus in Leaf v. International Galleries above , the purchaser was unable to rescind the contract some five years after it was made . |
| 7 | This was a chamber made for a purpose ; a purpose it was impatient to fulfil even four thousand years after it was built . |
| 8 | Even today , seven hundred years after it was built , the vast walled enclosure is still an impressive sight . |
| 9 | The first of which was probably about twenty years after it was built . |
| 10 | Using historical records computer scientists have reconstructed the building , fifteen hundred years after it was ruined . |
| 11 | Figure 5 is the PAS-score trajectory for Lowndes Queensway , the second largest furniture and carpet retailer in the UK , which went into administrative receivership in August 1990 , exactly two years after it was formed from a £450M leverage buy-out . |
| 12 | FOUR years after it was burned it to the ground in a disastrous fire , a Catholic church is rising from the ashes . |
| 13 | Meanwhile The Cement Garden is finally being shot in Britain by writer-director Andrew Birkin , with Andrew Robertson , Charlotte Gainsbourg and Sinead Cusack — eight years after it was bought . |
| 14 | The government abolished the death penalty for wartime offences on Sept. 16 , almost 50 years after it was abolished for civilian offenders . |
| 15 | Five South American presidents signed an accord to resurrect an Andean free-trade zone by the end of 1995 , more than 20 years after it was set up . |
| 16 | In August 1769 , eight years after it was opened , he enrolled as a student at the veterinary school in Lyons . |
| 17 | SMITH & NEPHEW is to pick up £46.5m from selling the Nivea skin care brand back to Beiersdorf 50 years after it was confiscated from the German company during the Second World War . |
| 18 | ALMOST two years after it was launched to the sound of grandiloquent claims from Tory ministers and loud cheers from businessmen , the Department of Employment 's market-led training policy is in danger of falling apart . |
| 19 | Tomorrow night on Central we begin a two-part report on a murder that 's still a mystery … ten years after it was committed . |
| 20 | It 's closing down … declared a fire safety risk … only a few years after it was reopened . |
| 21 | This course of action continues twenty years after it was instigated by Kilbrandon . |