Example sentences of "[art] [num ord] twenty years [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the first twenty years he was confined in prison-like conditions , somewhat alleviated at Broadmoor , where terraces allowed views of the surrounding countryside . |
| 2 | More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo . |
| 3 | The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land . |
| 4 | I will have more to say about family life in the next chapter , here I note merely that in the last twenty years we have seen the large-scale establishment of the single-parent family , the so-called serial-monogamy syndrome ( divorced people keep getting remarried ) and an endless chain of step-children and step/half brothers and sisters . |
| 5 | As Frank Bell pointed out , ‘ Over the last twenty years we have strived to provide a Quality Service . |
| 6 | Over the last twenty years I have been active in our hobby , I have lost count of the number of detectors I have used . |
| 7 | they said exactly what you 're saying , it was n't the last twenty years it was |
| 8 | For the last twenty years it has been the government policy in both countries to er protect their civilian populations against these weapons and the potential use of them by er terrorists or a hostile force . |
| 9 | For the next twenty years he managed the Lyceum , organizing eight tours of the United States and Canada . |