Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] twenty years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even as a boy Haile Selassie had believed in his imperial destiny ; for nearly twenty years he had survived conspiracies , wars and revolutions , and his resolution had never faltered . |
| 2 | After 1985 the Americans were increasingly happy to forget about their affair with Ceauşescu , but for almost twenty years it was a important plank of their foreign policy . |
| 3 | For over twenty years it has been constantly perceptive and probing in its reporting of the North 's political and artistic life , as well as providing a platform for all shades of opinion in Ireland . |
| 4 | For over twenty years I have been experimenting with how we show music : not only the work of the orchestra , how they play , but also the way the instruments are brought in as part of the musical argument . |
| 5 | For over twenty years I worked under the delusion that I was teaching maths . |