Example sentences of "twenty years [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I went out , past the shrouded furniture in the front room ( things made ready these twenty years past for the move that never came ) I noticed a Lowry reproduction hanging over the mantelpiece that had n't been there on my last visit . |
| 2 | Defined twenty years ago as a community 's ability to collaborate effectively in identifying problems and finding solutions , community competence has recently been associated with improved health outcomes ( Eng , 1989 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ I saw her play Saffi twenty years ago at the Volksoper . |
| 4 | My first doubts about hypnotism surfaced twenty years ago in a Manchester nightclub . |
| 5 | ‘ At a salary less than I was earning twenty years ago in the State system . |
| 6 | So , you can imagine what it 'll be like cos erm twenty years ago in the summer , well no , twenty five years ago |
| 7 | But many more were needed , and in early January Coleridge set off to publicize the new venture on a tour of the Midlands , recording an eventful journey with comic gusto both in his letters at the time and almost twenty years later in the Biographia Literaria . |
| 8 | And here I had the advantage of at least twenty years already in the profession . |
| 9 | Patrick 's mother had died twenty years before in the County Donegal , trying to prove that she could still climb to the top of a mountain called Muckish . |
| 10 | In the same way that repression was less effective than twenty years earlier as an instrument of socio-political control against the anti-Francoist opposition , the spectres of the Republic and the Civil War were less useful as a means of holding the regime forces together . |