Example sentences of "it for twenty year " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Course he will , ’ Joe snapped , ‘ bin doin it for twenty year . |
| 2 | ‘ I might have kicked a few people in my time , and some would say I got away with it for twenty years . |
| 3 | The trust ran it for twenty years as something like the proprietors ' colonies of the previous century , but in 1752 it became a royal colony . |
| 4 | Newton and Leibnitz discovered the principles of calculus at the same time ( and squabbled over it for twenty years ) ; Darwin thought of how the species evolved , but so did someone called A.R.Wallace , and at exactly the same time . |
| 5 | And I 'll tell you right now that unless you listen to the people that have been doing it for twenty years , in other words you do n't make appointments to go and see people to talk about |
| 6 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |