Example sentences of "after twenty years of " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years of trading in the volost' and in Kursk town he came to own by 1914 eight houses ( four of them in Kursk ) and had a turnover of a million roubles . |
| 2 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 3 | But there 's no language for love after twenty years of living together , mostly in the same rooms . |
| 4 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 5 | Reptile in charge of Magic Roundabout clearly loathes children after twenty years of roundabout rides , encourages smallest most ill-coordinated kids to perch on top of vast heaving wood and plaster horse in hope that when ride begins movement will hurl child into machinery for ever . |
| 6 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 7 | Subsistence pensions , at 40s 0d for a married couple or 24s 0d for a single person , were only to be attained after twenty years of slowly rising rates . |
| 8 | To this hidden land come Leo Vincey and Holly after twenty years of wandering in search of the goddess woman and here the pair of them are involved with the rebellion of Atene and her husband against the secret ruler Ayesha , now called He s ( or Isis ) . |
| 9 | In England and Wales the average proportion of each marriage cohort still without children after twenty years of marriage ( all ages at marriage together ) is between 10 and 15 per cent ( e.g. 1951 13 per cent , 1956 10 per cent ) . |
| 10 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 11 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |