Example sentences of "twenty years [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For almost twenty years Stutchbury devoted himself to the museum . |
| 2 | The criminal penalties , however , are draconian : up to twenty years imprisonment and up to $25,000 fine for each count ; provision is also made for pre-trial freezing of assets and post-trial forfeiture of any interest the defendant has gained as a result of his violation . |
| 3 | Francis Bacon who put money into an unsuccessful company to colonize Newfoundland wrote in his essay On Plantations ( the word used then and for most of the seventeenth century for what would later be called colonies ) ‘ You must make account to lose almost twenty years profit , and expect your recompense in the end . ’ |
| 4 | For the third time in just over twenty years Giovanni Bellini 's ‘ Madonna and Child ’ has been stolen from the church of the Madonna dell'Orto in Venice . |
| 5 | For twenty years Marcus Judge had been the most powerful figure on Jubilee Wharf , second only to the Wharfmaster himself . |
| 6 | And that script has been built up over twenty years experience . |
| 7 | And we know from twenty years experience of doing this |
| 8 | Over the next twenty years Kingsmill was to earn most of his income from writing . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 10 | retired from on , after twenty years service . |
| 11 | only thing we could , prospect for the er , like twenty years service |
| 12 | and therefore you can have a situation where , I mean if the Queen is there for another twenty years say , say the situation in twenty years time where you have king on throne and a queen who have not lived together for thirty years or whatever years and you know still playing out this |
| 13 | So even if in ten years , twenty years time , I put a claim , the money I get then , will be the same seventy odd per cent of my salary as it would be today . |
| 14 | In twenty years time this field full of weeds could well be supporting a wealth of wildflowers . |
| 15 | And nobody can imagine him like that in twenty years time . |
| 16 | In twenty years time maybe they wo n't feel so self-conscious , but I do n't think we should lost sight of the point that what they 're getting a tiny , tiny sense of is what women , a large number of women , feel all the time . |
| 17 | For the past twenty years Lily Goodenough has been fighting a brain tumour . |
| 18 | For twenty years De Lamerie 's silver shows a strong dependence on French Régence designs , and techniques such as heavy formal cast and applied ornament , but from the late 1720s his work demonstrates asymmetry , with rich figurative chasing and a revival of the auricular and massive motifs of a century earlier . |
| 19 | He ca n't really be in touch with the twenty years olds . |
| 20 | Languages and their histories are invaluable resources for feminists analysing the workings of patriarchal societies , and in the last twenty years feminists have drawn our attention to the sexist implications of usage in many languages . |
| 21 | There are those who feel that after twenty years the general public should be familiar enough with the rules governing child care and child protection , but perhaps the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Children 's Hearing system in 1991 was an opportune time to go back to its roots , to take a fresh look at how it works , and whether changes in society over twenty years point to the need for changes in the Scottish system of juvenile justice . |
| 22 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 23 | We wish to express our deep concern with regard to the proposed ending of the twenty years tax concession granted to mining companies operating in this State , by the Government . |
| 24 | During the last twenty years advertising has enjoyed many important changes such as the introduction of colour television commercial radio , and colour printing in newspapers . |
| 25 | For twenty years Floridablanca 's ‘ system ’ — the French alliance — had given Spain the appearance of a first-class naval , military , and colonial power . |