Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like Julian , who tells us that she wrestled for years with the problem of sin , Luther and St Teresa both struggled for some twenty years with a paralysing sense of their own sinfulness . |
| 2 | The Cuban law made provision for compensation with government bonds , redeemable within twenty years with an annual interest rate of 4.5 per cent . |
| 3 | Ricimer more than anyone else dominated the politics of the last twenty years of the Roman Empire in the west . |
| 4 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 5 | If the Woodchester mosaics are the earliest examples of integral group ( a ) , all the pavements of Woodchester , Barton and Stonesfield will be chronologically close , and are probably datable to the first twenty years of the fourth century ( in the sequence Woodchester Barton-Stonesfield- ? |
| 6 | TWENTY years on the All Ireland club competitions continue to enjoy unrivalled popularity . |
| 7 | So you were twenty years at the first place as well ? |
| 8 | The sacrifice of Tiutiunnyk and his men , because sacrifice was how it was seen in Bazar , lingered for twenty years as a whispered obsession in the minds of the townspeople . |
| 9 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
| 10 | Different in theory , but similar in effect , are the provisions of the Prescription Act 1832 , under which rights to easements and profits à prendre may be established by reason of enjoyment for a period of not less than twenty years in the one case , and not less than thirty in the other . |
| 11 | Bagshot had served for twenty years in the Royal Marines . |
| 12 | Even in India , where railway-building developed rapidly between the 1860s and 1880s , the crucial feeder lines most important to the exploitation of India 's resources were only built in the twenty years before the First World War . |
| 13 | Al-Lurd was Lord Cromer , the man who had run Egypt for over twenty years before the present incumbent . |
| 14 | Mankind has a powerful desire to rationalise its actions ; and when people found themselves ten , twenty years after the First World War still paying housing subsidies , this desire to rationalise , and perhaps a natural sense of shame , forbade them to recognise that they were doing so merely out of unwillingness to recognise that 1914 prices and money values had gone for ever . |
| 15 | Thereafter Bobby Locke of South Africa and Peter Thomson of Australia dominated the British professional game alongside American entrants for the Open for twenty years after the Second World War . |
| 16 | For at least twenty years after the Second World War most people supported the welfare state but since then it has come under attack from all sides . |