Example sentences of "[noun] in 20 years " in BNC.
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| 1 | SUPER St Helens yesterday sent champions Wigan crashing to their heaviest League defeat in 20 years . |
| 2 | ‘ I have never had trouble with any of my lads in 20 years . |
| 3 | But Biograph was a timely reminder of why he used to loom so large , featuring rare tracks , live recordings of familiar songs , and the best Dylan interview in 20 years in the booklet inside . |
| 4 | In 1990 , Moody 's reckons , companies defaulted on $22 billion of bonds , the highest nominal figure in 20 years . |
| 5 | How does he see your lives in 20 years time ? |
| 6 | It denied Wolves their first win at Filbert Street in 20 years and Hoult walked off to a standing ovation from the 13,000 crowd . |
| 7 | The status of the golf pro was elevated from serfdom to secular divinity in 20 years . |
| 8 | FOR THEIR first UK appearance in 20 years , Germanic rockers Faust chose London 's notorious Marquee club as the venue to strut their stuff , surely the nearest equivalent they could get to the bowels of Hell ! |
| 9 | It was the worst mine explosion in 20 years and a culmination of a series of explosions caused by the owners , eagerness to bring out coal from the crept workings . |
| 10 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 11 | Had it gone over the bar Wexford would now still be celebrating their first major title in 20 years . |
| 12 | The draft budget for 1993 , presented to the Cortes on Sept. 29 and described by Economy and Finance Minister Carlos Solchaga Catalán as the most restrictive budget in 20 years , allowed for a central government spending increase of only 3.7 per cent in real terms ( 2.1 per cent of this allocated to debt servicing ) , with the budget deficit due to fall from 2.6 to 2.3 per cent of GDP ( Pta1,421,100 million — approximately US$13,930 million ) . |
| 13 | McKellar has retired after an incredible run of 17 clubs in 20 years in league soccer — on both sides of the border . |
| 14 | Voters lined up before dawn in Chad yesterday to participate in the first national election in 20 years in this war-torn former French colony . |
| 15 | The council elections to be held in Chile in June will provide the first opportunity in 20 years for Chileans to vote against the ‘ eyes and ears ’ of the military dictatorship , according to Maria Antonieta Saa , the human rights activist and Chile 's only woman mayor . |
| 16 | It 's his first series on British television in 20 years . |
| 17 | Muffet the bearcat peers out curiously at her new home in London Zoo , where she and new partner Brendan are the first of their species in 20 years . |
| 18 | A ‘ baby boom ’ now could provide a large number of teachers in 20 years ' time ; but if in 15 years ' time , the birth rate were to be low , there would be insufficient children for these teachers to teach ( unless pupil/teacher ratios were to be changed ) . |
| 19 | The case being considered during the next few weeks will be the first alleged breach of an environment directive by this Government in 20 years ' membership of the European Community — and I am proud of that . |
| 20 | Not when — if , perchance , Labour Members were in that position in 20 years ' time , would they be prepared to have the whole system of assessing and adjudicating upon genuine claims destroyed by the campaigns that are being organised in some parts of this country ? |
| 21 | London has seen the disappearance of more than three quarters of a million manufacturing jobs in 20 years : an aggregate figure masking stagnation and decline in an inner south-east zone , and growth in the west , in part related to Heathrow Airport , as a ‘ high-tech ’ crescent ( Hall et al . , |
| 22 | Victory over Portsmouth is essential if Liverpool are to avoid completing two consecutive seasons without a major trophy for the first time in 20 years . |
| 23 | The Barcelona regatta marks the return of slalom to the Olympic programme for the first time in 20 years and Britain have strong hopes of a string of medals . |
| 24 | Peterborough0 Stoke1 ( Stoke win 4–3 on aggregate ) A SINGLE goal by Stoke City secured their place in a Wembley final for the first time in 20 years on a night when defender Lee Sandford required six stitches in a cheek wound following a clash with Peterborough captain Mick Halsall . |
| 25 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 26 | CHESS wizard Bobby Fischer was beaten by old rival Boris Spassky yesterday — for the first time in 20 years . |
| 27 | The switch has surprised Wembley , who expected a home game against Spain , and has disappointed the Spanish FA , who hoped they were being invited to London for only the second time in 20 years . |
| 28 | No. 30053 which hauled a passenger train for the first time in 20 years . |
| 29 | The presidential election of 1952 brought the Republicans back to power for the first time in 20 years . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |