Example sentences of "[prep] 20 years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the first time in 20 years I have felt any hope . ’ |
| 2 | He says in 20 years he 's not known a similar accident . |
| 3 | She was the British critics ' favourite on both the Bolshoi 's tours here , but for 20 years she played second fiddle to Grigorovich 's wife , Bessmertnova . |
| 4 | For 20 years she tried to make her name as an actress . |
| 5 | The Prince of Wales has an obvious love of the countryside and for 20 years he has somehow found some private time to express this through the medium of watercolour painting . |
| 6 | Does my right hon. Friend agree , however , that for 20 years he and his predecessors have pursued the will-of-the-wisp of power-sharing , devolved government ; and that , for as long as it is pursued , the IRA will believe , rightly or wrongly , that it will get us out in the end ? |
| 7 | For 20 years it has been an offence for anyone to drive a motor vehicle if he has more than 80mg of alcohol in ever 100ml of blood . |