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

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1 The scowl too had gained at least another twenty years of maturity .
2 It was the ‘ second line ’ , ‘ support ’ and ‘ facility ’ squadrons which took the UK Canberra squadrons into another twenty years of service with a variety of roles and mark conversions , and so brought a continued need for the services of 231 OCU , albeit on a decreasing scale over the years .
3 Venice Restored takes stock of the first twenty years of conservation in the Serenissima after the disastrous flood of 1966 .
4 Originally the scheme allowed for pensions to be calculated on the best twenty years of earnings , which at least went some way towards enabling women , who spend some rime out of the labour market caring for dependants , to maximize their future pension .
5 There is enough recorded in Warnie 's diaries over the next twenty years of friction and domestic misery to make us see why Jack had misgivings about the advisability of their all attempting to live together .
6 They brought him inside to erm recruit without giving him any training at all and what I do has been gained over the last twenty years of recruitment .
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