Example sentences of "twenty years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 32 | With the help of donations and grants we have restored some of the lost opening hours , continued to purchase books and carried out urgent conservation work ; and we celebrated twenty years of exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery . |
| 33 | But children grow up and as they reach twenty years of age , the rights and concerns which have provided them with an education , and their families with a range of supports , begin to fall away . |
| 34 | On the Friday Daley Thompson successfully beat off the German challenge and retained his decathlon crown , and Roger Black , just twenty years of age , added not only a European title to his Commonwealth gold but a new British record as well . |
| 35 | Many complained of a promiscuous mingling of sexes , and a witness before the Factory Commission in 1833 declared : ‘ It would be no strain on his conscience to say that three-quarters of the girls between fourteen and twenty years of age were unchaste . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ But to become a master-a Khalifa — can take twenty years of training . |
| 37 | No major country house has faced a greater catalogue of danger and decay than Barlaston , with the combined problems of twenty years of rain cascading through the roof and repeated bouts of coal mining subsidence . |
| 38 | They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment . |
| 39 | Twenty years of club tours to the Midlands , Kent , Herts and Essex recorded for the delectation of those who enjoyed them . |
| 40 | It is perhaps necessary to set the scene for this remarkable decade in the history of the District to show the ways in which the firm foundation for subsequent growth and consolidation was secured following a period of more than twenty years of uncertainty and improvision . |
| 41 | Venice Restored takes stock of the first twenty years of conservation in the Serenissima after the disastrous flood of 1966 . |
| 42 | The poor have lost the ability to campaign after nearly twenty years of repression … |