Example sentences of "but [prep] [art] last twenty [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the last twenty years , and increasingly so at the moment , quick profits are what the rainforests are all about . |
| 2 | For , not only did the explicit recognition of forward movement in time and the rejection of the idea of endless recurrence originate with Zoroastrianism , but in the last twenty years or so Old Testament scholars have drawn attention to the similarity between some passages in the Old Testament and certain Mesopotamian texts . |
| 3 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 4 | But over the last twenty years one could identify changes . |
| 5 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |