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Example sentences for "year after"

  • Then--it was nearly a year after--he went off on a voyage and didn't come back.

  • He was on his back for nearly a year after, and then, when he began to get about again, them humps came and he grew crooked.

  • My father died only a year after, and no one ever cared what happened to us after that.

  • She died--less than a year after--when Jack and Robin were born.

  • One thing we do know--that, year after year, use is being found for the most repellent country.

  • Oxley had followed the rivers down when, year after year, the regular rainfall had made them navigable for his boats, and had finally lost them in oceans of reeds.

  • Rapid unexpected inroads, year after year; done chiefly by the Free-Corps; and famous enough to the then Gazetteers.

  • I never knew my mother, who died a year after I was born.

  • This society was founded a year after that at Union Village; it had in 1825 one hundred members; and is now prosperous, pecuniarily, having no debt, and money at interest.

  • When a man has his wages stolen from him, year after year, and the laws sanction and enforce the theft, how can he be expected to have more regard to honesty than has the man who robs him?

  • This Roland was the father of the Therese whom I had loved nine years before, and whom my brother Jean had married in 1762, a year after my departure.

  • A year after I left the Comte du Barri, brother-in-law of the famous mistress of Louis XV.

  • He attained the rank of field-marshal in 1768, and went to Naples to marry a rich heiress, whom he left a widow a year after.

  • A year after I had left the convent my grandfather came and told me in the presence of my governess that Count Fl---- had asked my hand for his son, who was coming from Madrid end would arrive that day.

  • In the first place, it may be safely affirmed that little direct effect can be expected from such quickly available and easily soluble forms of nitrogenous manures as nitrate of soda and sulphate of ammonia a year after application.

  • Where, for example, the manure has been nitrate of soda or sulphate of ammonia, it may be safely concluded that its direct influence is no longer felt a year after application.

  • Within a year after, the ruin so much talked of vanished in smoke, and there was an end of the business.

  • I've a good matter of money, which I've laid by year after year, and worked hard for it too, and I never have known what to do with it.

  • Certain auks lay their single egg on the bare rock while the stone curlew and goatsucker deposit theirs on the bare soil, returning, however, year after year to the same spot.

  • Year after year a colony will return to a favourite bank, whose face has been honey-combed with such care.

  • A booming bittern I know sits hour after hour, almost every day in summer, year after year, on a dark, decaying pile of an old dock in the creek.

  • Usually they go to sleep among the reeds and grasses in a favourite marsh where the bands return year after year; but some prefer trees.

  • It is so common that no wife is surprised at being divorced a year after marriage, or six months, even a week.

  • A son, born a year after, was a six-fingered idiot, with retinitis pigmentosa.

  • She married a thirty-year-old active business man, in whom ataxia developed a year after marriage.

  • The permanent incisors do not calcify until a year after birth.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "year after" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    first performance; flashed over; full force; future things; last week; neither male nor female; our camp; should need; though small; told about; year after; year and; year course; year ending; year period; year since; year term; yearly income; years after; years afterward; years afterwards; years ago; years gone; years later; years male; years previously