Example sentences of "twenty years [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For twenty years Marcus Judge had been the most powerful figure on Jubilee Wharf , second only to the Wharfmaster himself . |
| 3 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |
| 4 | For twenty years De Lamerie 's silver shows a strong dependence on French Régence designs , and techniques such as heavy formal cast and applied ornament , but from the late 1720s his work demonstrates asymmetry , with rich figurative chasing and a revival of the auricular and massive motifs of a century earlier . |
| 5 | We wish to express our deep concern with regard to the proposed ending of the twenty years tax concession granted to mining companies operating in this State , by the Government . |