Example sentences of "[verb] twenty years [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 2 | Alexandra sat down at the huge scrubbed table at which she had watched twenty years of bread and pastry being made . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I mean , I spent twenty years at Chloé without ever having dinner once with them . |
| 5 | ‘ But to become a master-a Khalifa — can take twenty years of training . |
| 6 | Leese was a vet by trade , but no ordinary vet , for he was a specialist in camels , having spent twenty years in India and Africa studying their diseases . |
| 7 | It 's taken twenty years of work by volunteers.Tim Hurst reports . |
| 8 | 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 . |