Example sentences of "[adv] twenty years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 2 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 3 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 4 | For the third time in just over twenty years Giovanni Bellini 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ has been stolen from the church of the Madonna dell'Orto in Venice . |
| 5 | And that script has been built up over twenty years experience . |
| 6 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |