Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] for twenty year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 2 | Our knowledge of this comes very largely from David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel , who worked together for twenty years at Harvard Medical School , recording from single neurons of the visual cortex — the part of the neocortex that receives its input mainly from the eyes . |
| 3 | You would argue with me who have taught here for twenty years you , you , Gwendoline turned and fled . |
| 4 | Despite natural hardships and TB ( which he resisted remarkably for twenty years ) , he loved life passionately . |
| 5 | The story was put aside for twenty years , then rescued by the wife of one of the now adult nephews , shown to a publisher relation , tried out satisfactorily on his own children and brought out to resounding success . |
| 6 | I have lived here for twenty years . |