Example sentences of "twenty years [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago a poor vicar fell in love with a rich man 's daughter . |
| 2 | Some twenty years ago a single font would have cost you around $4,500 . |
| 3 | The hosiery industry was traditionally one consisting almost entirely of small family firms , but twenty years ago a few yarn suppliers and other major companies bought out large numbers of them . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago the same testy attitude was asserting itself in Parliament , prompting one MP to urge Mr Butler not to give in to ‘ the wild men of the Conservative Party ’ . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago the Advisory Council on the Penal System observed that notions of punitiveness do not accord with ‘ the British concept of probation as an alternative to , rather than a suspension of , punishment ’ ( quoted in Bochel , 1976 , p. 238 ) . |
| 6 | This process has accelerated in the twentieth century and , we argue , reached completion in the twenty years following the Second World War . |