Example sentences of "be [adv] twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | She may have been just twenty years old , and secretly terrified , but she would only have one wedding in her life , and she was determined to make it her own . |
| 2 | ‘ They 're about twenty years too late . |
| 3 | Do you mean , must be about twenty years ago then ? |
| 4 | Anyway I 've been here twenty years — since I left school , and Edwin Garland was my uncle by marriage . ’ |
| 5 | Been there twenty years , near enough . " |
| 6 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 7 | If you compare when we first came to Harlow , which is only twenty years ago , the possession of a television set , erm was only just becoming the normal thing |
| 8 | She 's just twenty years old . |
| 9 | It is nearly twenty years … ‘ |
| 10 | It may be too old it 's , I think it 's about twenty years old |
| 11 | ‘ He 's about twenty years old , ’ Anna thought . |
| 12 | That 's about twenty years old . |
| 13 | ‘ It is almost twenty years ! ’ replied the sad little voice . |
| 14 | I 've got a video that 's over twenty years old . |
| 15 | We have come a long way since the idealism of Lord Devlin — and that was only twenty years ago . |
| 16 | ‘ The memory will always be with me of those lads ' faces , even though at the time I was only twenty years old myself , to see them sat on the floor of the aircraft , and some of the trying to negotiate the main spar , and the cheers and tears when we came over the white cliffs of England . |
| 17 | It was about twenty years ago I met Compeyson . |
| 18 | That was about twenty years ago almost twenty years ago , so where they buy it now I do n't know . |
| 19 | I mean , he was about twenty years older , two feet shorter and ten stone lighter than Nevil . |
| 20 | However , he reflected that it was now twenty years since he had been ejected from the church on ‘ Black Bartholomew 's Day ’ , and during all that time , by God 's mercy , he , and many others had been kept in relative ‘ peace ’ and freedom to serve the Lord , despite all the efforts of the Church and State to silence them . |
| 21 | I was then twenty years old and was asked to take charge of the Walsall business . |
| 22 | I lived in a small village in Essex with my sister , who was over twenty years older than me , and married to Joe Gargery , the village blacksmith . |