Example sentences of "[prep] twenty years [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 2 | retired from on , after twenty years service . |
| 3 | only thing we could , prospect for the er , like twenty years service |
| 4 | And we know from twenty years experience of doing this |
| 5 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 6 | In twenty years time this field full of weeds could well be supporting a wealth of wildflowers . |
| 7 | And nobody can imagine him like that in twenty years time . |
| 8 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 9 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |