Example sentences of "twenty years [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the next twenty years its hosiery products and other goods were utilising around twenty wagon services to Bristol , Birmingham , Northampton , Stamford and Cambridge as well as more than 200 serving surrounding districts . |
| 2 | He had been reduced to seven stone by his ill-health and was some twenty years their junior . |
| 3 | Her charm was such that her second marriage was with a man twenty years her junior , Sir John Danvers . |
| 4 | Twenty years her junior , the young Lutyens had always nurtured the idea that the garden of a house should complement the whole picture . |
| 5 | Sometime between 1700 and 1703 she married the Revd Thomas Egerton , rector of Adstock , Buckinghamshire , a second cousin about twenty years her senior , and a widower . |
| 6 | In 1847 she married Reginald Henry Nevill ( died 1878 ) , a distant relation ; he was twenty years her senior , and had inherited considerable wealth from a Walpole uncle . |
| 7 | For twenty years my life has been lived within the Left , and the companionship and creativity of many of the people I have met have changed me . |
| 8 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 9 | The romantically handsome musician met the vivacious half-Russian Freda Bernstein , twenty years his junior , during the second World war . |
| 10 | He had married late , a buxom research scientist from Cambridge twenty years his junior , and drove back to their modern flat on the outskirts of the city each night in his Jaguar — his chief extravagance frequently late , but seldom too late to bear her off to their local pub . |
| 11 | These etchings were produced with a detailed traditional technique , but during the next twenty years his style altered radically to one that verged into the art nouveau school . |
| 12 | During the ensuing twenty years his energetic and far-sighted management brought great prosperity and turned Pickfords into the largest carrying business in the country . |
| 13 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |