Example sentences of "twenty years [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Uprising destroyed this normality , and one must ask why it occurred , and why it occurred when it did , twenty years after the territories fell under Israeli rule . |
| 2 | Visually Melton remains a railway centre even more than twenty years after the railway went . |
| 3 | In Huxley 's own book The Crayfish ( 1879 ) , written twenty years after the Origin had appeared , the development of crayfishes is a very unimportant part of the work , forming a confessedly hypothetical section at the end . |
| 4 | Litigation followed until finally the dispute was settled by agreement between the two parties on 16th July 1784 — twenty years after the indomitable brewer had first crossed swords with the Corporation . |
| 5 | Making fathers pay the poll tax for their under-age children , he said , hindered the growth of population , which had advanced less in the twenty years since the mid-1830s than it had in the twenty years before that . |
| 6 | The older castles were patched up and redefended but the raids continued , increasing in severity ; it took almost twenty years before the authorities finally awoke to the extent of the problem . |
| 7 | Hammond , who had been in the Foreign Office since 1824 after a distinguished academic career at Oxford , was considered to be ‘ sharp and a glutton at work ’ , and emerges as a powerful figure who over nearly twenty years as the permanent head of the Office brought nearly every aspect of its work under his personal control . |