Example sentences of "[verb] twenty years of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made .
2 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 .
3 ‘ But to become a master-a Khalifa — can take twenty years of training .
4 It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports .
5 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 .
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