Example sentences of "twenty years the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 2 | After twenty years the Dwarfs abandon the mines at Mount Silverspear to the Orcs . |
| 3 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |
| 4 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 5 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 6 | In the past twenty years the population of this town has almost doubled and the number of cars using the roads has trebled , making that quote much much more topical . |
| 7 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 8 | In the past twenty years the planning , organization and equipment of order-maintenance has been steadily updated and centralized , so that the police now has the potential to mobilize thousands of riot-trained and equipped police officers . |
| 9 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 10 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
| 11 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |