Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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- ? |
| 3 | So you were twenty years at the first place as well ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |