Example sentences of "twenty years [conj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , twenty years after Professor Robinson 's observation that institutions and attitudes would have to change , the Bank sees as necessary , but does not expect to get , a change of attitudes . |
| 2 | It is twenty years since Claudio Parmiggiani 's first one-man show in Belgium , organised by gallery owner Albert Baronian . |
| 3 | Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall . |
| 4 | It was some twenty years since Major Pond 's visit and the visitor from Booth 's enquiry team observed a communion service on a Sunday evening in 1901 : |
| 5 | The origins of his inspiration , twenty years before Horace Wells discovered nitrous oxide anaesthesia , are unknown . |
| 6 | No. 30 Mouncy Street was his first stop because he knew already from his own observation that here lived a truly old inhabitant ; Mary Adelaide Flock , who had been born twenty years before Queen Victoria died and did not count herself old yet . |
| 7 | Though Ciullo by Rossetti 's reckoning composed the poem in the 1170s , at least twenty years before Frederick Hohenstaufen came to the throne of Sicily , Pound in The Spirit of Romance juxtaposes the two names , presumably as ‘ an instigation ’ — though to what , it is not easy to say . |
| 8 | The Northumbrian regnal list gives Aldfrith a reign of twenty years and Bede correspondingly assigned him a reign from 685 to 705 ( HE IV , 26 ; V , 18 ) , but Bede also knew , perhaps from knowledge of a more precise regnal figure , that Aldfrith really reigned nineteen years ( HE V , 1 ) and died before the end o his twentieth regnal year ( HE V , 18 ) . |