Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] twenty year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Child-bearing and cooking for twenty years … she must have been worn out before she died a comparatively young woman . |
| 2 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 4 | They 've been going for twenty years and er there 's er school is very much , I would have put you straight into schools |
| 5 | About this time a detailed correspondence , lasting for twenty years , started between Sloane and Ray . |
| 6 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 7 | Faith also has been flying for twenty years . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'll never let you in , not if you go on crying for twenty years ! ’ |
| 9 | In a characteristic show of intellectual bravado , de Gaulle now said that he had seen independence coming for twenty years or more . |
| 10 | He had a most successful career , finishing with twenty years in Hamburg as successor to Telemann . |
| 11 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 12 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 13 | Professor Reg King has been working for twenty years on developing a foolproof bank cashpoint machine . |