Example sentences of "[noun] for the last twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 4 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 5 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 6 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 7 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 8 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 9 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 10 | Regrettably this manuscript has been lost within the British Library for the last twenty years , and studies of it at present have to be based on photographic records . |
| 11 | Now every opinion poll in er Britain for the last twenty two years has said that they believe that has shown that the people believe that the troops should not be in Northern Ireland . |
| 12 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 13 | Wandering the stalls was South African attorney Ismael Ayob , who has represented the Mandelas for the last twenty years . |
| 14 | In we 've had a menopause clinic in Glasgow for the last twenty four years erm , it 's run by a male doctor erm but we have been treating patients for that length time . |
| 15 | I work out the odds against the cargo being lost , based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years , then I add a bit , then you pay me some money based on those odds — ’ |
| 16 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 17 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |