Example sentences of "twenty years [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 2 | The two years in the Cork posting had seemed like twenty years to Roddy . |
| 3 | Twenty years of Arthur , her doggedly dull hypochondriac husband , have taken their toll and , in the mood for a dramatic gesture , she books a room in the ghastly hotel where they spent their wedding night with the intention of committing suicide . |
| 4 | BIUT TASH A reverie lasting more than twenty years on Har Dar Da themes ( cf ) |
| 5 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 6 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 7 | During his first twenty years at Finsbury , Meldola published more than 250 papers and reports , and during his presidency of the Institute of Chemistry he did much work for the development of all aspects of its activities . |
| 8 | Leese was a vet by trade , but no ordinary vet , for he was a specialist in camels , having spent twenty years in India and Africa studying their diseases . |
| 9 | Over the last twenty years in Britain industrial action has affected a whole range of essential services from water , electricity and fire-fighting to the Royal Mail , public transport and health . |
| 10 | Recognising that feminist film theory , criticism and film-making have developed very much in reciprocal relation to each other , I shall try to sketch the major areas of interest and controversy in the past twenty years in Britain and America . |
| 11 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 12 | He had a most successful career , finishing with twenty years in Hamburg as successor to Telemann . |
| 13 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 14 | He gave his consent to the marriage and Llewellyn and Rachael lived for twenty years in Drunkeen , one of the Saunderson family homes . |
| 15 | The Industrial Revolution had , of course , begun some twenty years before Jane Austen 's birth , at a time when the Rule of Taste had established an unquestioned supremacy ; but it was in the twenty years following her death in 1817 that it really began to change the face of England . |
| 16 | These problems were not strange to the Prague School , who were working on the semiotics of art about twenty years before Barthes . |
| 17 | For the rest of the decade they shone only on training sessions and ground maintenance work , and it was not until 1951 , some twenty years after Chapman 's enthusiastic advocacy , that the first official floodlit match was held , between Southampton and Tottenham reserves at the Dell . |
| 18 | Dickens published Sketches by Boz in 1836–7 , just twenty years after Jane Austen 's death , and it is not difficult to discover , by a comparison , why Kingsley should have regarded that book as a watershed in the depiction of fictional living space . |
| 19 | Offa 's description of Ealdred as ‘ my subregulus , dux , that is , of his own people , the Hwicce ’ ( CS 223 : S 113 ) , which reveals dux becoming an acceptable term for a sub-king , dates to as late as 778 , twenty years after Offa 's accession . |
| 20 | One hundred and twenty years after Nehemiah and Pericles Greeks and Jews found themselves under the control of Alexander the Great — a Greek-speaking Macedonian who considered himself the heir of the Persian kings . |
| 21 | What has made the re-dating definitive has been the dendrochronologist 's report which dates the panel to around 1485 — some twenty years after Rogier 's death ’ . |
| 22 | This was where the offices of the English Department and several lecture-rooms were situated when I arrived in 1957 , twenty years after Philby . |
| 23 | As a general rule it might be productive to give forecasts at the year 2012 — twenty years after Rio . |