Example sentences of "twenty years [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago London Road was a busy , thriving commercial centre thronged with shoppers . |
| 2 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago Estelle Fuchs discussed the implications of the following statement made by an enthusiastic teacher in an urban school : |
| 4 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
| 5 | Twenty years ago history textbooks did consist principally of " text " . |
| 6 | Twenty years ago Australians rejected calls for a republic . |
| 7 | About twenty years ago department stores in Tokyo started to make parts of their buildings into exhibition spaces and called them museums . |
| 8 | TWENTY YEARS ago Oldfield 's epic original ‘ Tubular Bells ’ was a teenage obsession of mine , a soundtrack to my fevered adolescent imagination , its sweeping vistas providing a place of escape . |
| 9 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
| 10 | For example , twenty years ago Coeliac Disease ( intolerance to wheat ) was an illness which began during infancy or early childhood in almost 100% of cases . |
| 11 | Nearly twenty years later Phoebe still found it hard to suppress a little vindictive chuckle at the looks of growing shock on Jim 's face -Jim and Lisa 's Jonathan and Sue 's Alan — when they discovered that their righteousness was not enough . |
| 12 | Even twenty years later Tim Page could say ‘ All war is glorious ’ . |
| 13 | Twenty years later Channel Four , originally conceived as a publishing house for independent producers , succumbed to the same institutional pressures . |
| 14 | Twenty years later Craig was still convinced that he had been right . |