Example sentences of "[prep] twenty years [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 2 | Your lust for her knew no bounds and when this loyal woman spurned you for her husband of twenty years you wreaked a terrible revenge ! ’ |
| 3 | Over a period of twenty years it is claimed that a fast reactor could breed enough additional plutonium to fuel another similar power station . |
| 4 | So within twenty years there has been an enormous change . |
| 5 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 6 | Richard has a wealth of experience in catering as for twenty years he was manager of a large company hotel . |
| 7 | For twenty years he served as second-in-command to his father . |
| 8 | Boase explained that for twenty years he had made a collection of notes relating to English persons deceased since 1850 , and that in compiling his work he had kept in mind the dictum of James Anthony Froude [ q.v. ] , ‘ we want the biographies of common people ’ , so that many hundreds of the thousands of entries included in his compilation related to persons who had not been eminent but had led interesting lives , accounts of which could not be found in any other book . |
| 9 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 10 | For twenty years I have known the same man and yet still I do not know him . |
| 11 | For twenty years I 've wondered whether my suspicions were well founded . |
| 12 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 13 | For twenty years she saved up her money for the ‘ round trip ’ , and having been round the world , is now full of memories . |
| 14 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 15 | For twenty years my life has been lived within the Left , and the companionship and creativity of many of the people I have met have changed me . |