For Mr Mitchell, that came a decade after ...

[Maybo]

Can I say "... came three years after...."?

 

[Tarheel]

It depends. What's the rest of the sentence?

 

[Maybo]

It depends. What's the rest of the sentence?

The same as the sample sentence.

 

[Tarheel]

It's the same thing. (That's hard for me to read.)

 

[Rover_KE]

Do you think a decade is the same as three years, Maybo?

The link you gave as your source is not much use.

 

[jutfrank]

A decade is ten years, not three years. You can say:

For Mr Mitchell that came ten years after he assumed the leadership on November 5, 2001.

 

[Maybo]

It is because I don’t know if I need “after” after “came”. Since “came a decade” is grammatical, I’d like to know if I could put other period after “came” so I asked “came three years”.

 

[Tarheel]

@Maybo

I did not, of course, mean that three years is the same as a decade. It isn't. You can, however, use one instead of the other.

Say:

So I asked about "came three years".

Well, Jutfrank already gave you a sample sentence.

All by itself that phrase means very little if anything.

Do you have a sentence in mind?

 

[Maybo]

Do you have a sentence in mind?

No. But I got the answer.