Example sentences of "[adj] twenty years [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 2 | Over the last twenty years a number of publications concerned with the education of visually handicapped children have given very prescriptive advice on the most suitable seating arrangements for classes which include visually handicapped children . |
| 3 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 4 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 5 | However , in the past twenty years a variety of new approaches has evolved , beyond clinics on the one hand and mental hospitals on the other , to provide a more easily accessible ‘ user-friendly ’ , informal ‘ open-door ’ facility . |
| 6 | In the past twenty years the population of this town has almost doubled and the number of cars using the roads has trebled , making that quote much much more topical . |
| 7 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 8 | In the past twenty years the planning , organization and equipment of order-maintenance has been steadily updated and centralized , so that the police now has the potential to mobilize thousands of riot-trained and equipped police officers . |