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Example sentences for "years later"

  • All this is important in view of the pre- eminency of Ts'in when the time came, 400 years later, to abolish the meticulous feudal system altogether.

  • God now says my half-brother will be overthrown at the battle of Han" (the pass where the philosopher Lao-tsz is supposed to have written his book 150 years later).

  • Nabonidus, who lived more than 3000 years later, and may have been mistaken, but he was in the best position to consult the oldest records, and had apparently no motive to make a wilful mis-statement.

  • Noah's ark, and made a fresh start from a single centre some 1500 years later, there can be any truth in Darwin's theory of evolution.

  • Years later, I recollect that those Irish riots in New York over the negro question served as the basis for some exceedingly heated arguments between an English friend of mine at Aix-les-Bains and a Catholic priest living there.

  • Piccolomini arrived here a couple of years later and I heard her, too.

  • Years later, when I was singing in St. Paul, the Dispatch printed this story in an interview with Mr. Newson himself.

  • For instance, Matilda Heron in Camille gave me a picture of poor Marguerite Gautier so deep and so vivid that I found it invaluable, years later, when I myself came to play Violetta in Traviata.

  • It was this boatman who was twenty years later to have, of all men, the chance.

  • Woodward, writing from Louisiana more than fifty years later, says: "There is yet a language the Texas Indians call the Mobilian tongue, that has been the trading language of almost all the tribes that have inhabited the country.

  • Years later we shall see the intimate friend of both him and his painter writing of the astronomer as a man "brim-full" of humour and fancy.

  • In all, there would seem to have been six large pictures or set pieces; but two were not done until years later.

  • This is the immortal series of Woodcuts, often called "The Dance of Death," done for the Trechsel Brothers of Lyons, but not published there until many years later.

  • The majority of those competent to form a judgment in such matters are inclined to attribute the work to Hans Holbein the Elder, who did not die until some years later, and who made use of a very similar form of signature.

  • And I have a vague recollection of having read, years later, a description of what was seen as the portals were thrown back after their century of peace, and light and air had percolated through the room.

  • Years later, when the Duke of Edinburgh commanded the Galatea, he still remembered his musical colleague, and a pretty snake ring with a turquoise in the head that he presented to me was lost in an accident that nearly cost me my life.

  • It makes one realize the flight of time to read a little farther on of Goethe's visit to the illustrious De Saussure, through whose initiative the ascent of Mont Blanc was accomplished nearly seven years later.

  • Something happened to it a couple of hundred of years later (about the middle of the eighteenth century): it was probably enlarged.

  • Geneva could not endure the latter and banished Farel and Calvin two years later; but back they came and established the tyranny more solidly than ever.

  • In 1816 he received a commission to paint four of the eight commemorative pictures in the Capitol at Washington, and completed the last one eight years later, this being his last important work.

  • Years later, our own Professor Henry discovered that if an insulated wire carrying a current of electricity was wrapped around a piece of soft iron, the latter became a magnet.

  • Henry of Navarre rejoined his old friends two years later, after having in the meantime vied with his brother-in-law and his incestuous wife in frivolity and immorality.

  • A chronologically arranged collection was made ten years later, and was published in A.

  • He told us about it years later, and he seemed no less amazed than we.

  • Years later, when a British Artist was dining with us, Whistler came in.

  • The piers of the bridge are hard and tight, the background resembles Whistler's work of years later, for neither Whistler nor Greaves had painted a Nocturne in that manner at the time.

  • Never be frightened at anything but your own heart," he writes to one of these Matsue pupils, when giving him good advice some years later.

  • It is remarkable not only for its early date, but also for its high state of development with a crossfeed screw which had not become universally accepted 300 years later.

  • In the description of Strabo, more than 500 years later, Tyre appears less magnificent.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ancient demesne; apparent reason; aromatic spirits; fine paste; give life; going out; good creature; holding the; inform you; night march; other species; productive power; see less developed countries; this house; vegetable substances; viva voce; whenever possible; years afterward; years earlier; years female; years later; years male; years old; years previously; years since; years went