Example sentences of "twenty years in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I need not even mention the agitation surrounding race and racialism and immigration in the unique circumstances of the last twenty years in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | Different in theory , but similar in effect , are the provisions of the Prescription Act 1832 , under which rights to easements and profits à prendre may be established by reason of enjoyment for a period of not less than twenty years in the one case , and not less than thirty in the other . |
| 3 | Over the last twenty years in Britain industrial action has affected a whole range of essential services from water , electricity and fire-fighting to the Royal Mail , public transport and health . |
| 4 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 5 | Recognising that feminist film theory , criticism and film-making have developed very much in reciprocal relation to each other , I shall try to sketch the major areas of interest and controversy in the past twenty years in Britain and America . |
| 6 | If we look back over the record of the last twenty years in our ten countries , we may detect certain common trends , unspectacular , but nevertheless significant . |
| 7 | ‘ Police , ’ one cop said , and he felt ridiculous , in full uniform , his truncheon out , but , twenty years in the job , he had never , in all his time , seen a house like this before . |
| 8 | Leese was a vet by trade , but no ordinary vet , for he was a specialist in camels , having spent twenty years in India and Africa studying their diseases . |
| 9 | Although allowed to visit her husband only rarely during his twenty years in Spandau , she and her six children had never ceased to support him , and I was not surprised to hear that during their father 's absence all six had obtained university degrees . |
| 10 | Twenty years in the House still had n't dampened his extraordinary enthusiasm for the job and his not unappealing surprise that he should actually be there . |
| 11 | Nancy Hoffman is celebrating twenty years in business at her gallery this month . |
| 12 | After twenty years in boxes a friend of the patron 's family funds its display |
| 13 | The only complete Frank Lloyd Wright interior in Europe opened at the Victoria and Albert Museum on 20 January after nearly twenty years in storage through lack of funds . |
| 14 | Margaret O'Mara , a classicist and economist who has spent almost twenty years in the Treasury where she has been involved in monetary policy and the control of public expenditure . |
| 15 | Another woman , in a different firm , who had been twenty years in the trade ( so must have been one of the original beginners ) reported in similar terms : " in the regular bookwork , the girls do the same work as the men , but they do not lift their own " formes " and " chases " . |
| 16 | I 'd done twenty years in the family planning and I 'd done twelve years on the council and I 'd done thirty years as school governor . |
| 17 | Two years later , in 1318 , the Scots captured Berwick after twenty years in English possession and then advanced southwards almost to Pontefract : while burgesses of Ripon escaped the sacking of their town by payment of a thousand marks , just a few miles away the monks of Fountains abbey were similarly purchasing mercy from the invaders . |
| 18 | To summarise this section on education : substantial progress has been made in the last twenty years in relation to the reduction of sex inequalities in education . |
| 19 | Twenty years in English prisons . |
| 20 | The USSR and its East European allies constituted the Warsaw Treaty Organisation , founded in 1955 and extended for twenty years in 1985 ; a somewhat larger group of states , including Cuba , Mongolia and Vietnam , were members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance ( CMEA or Comecon ) . |
| 21 | He gave his consent to the marriage and Llewellyn and Rachael lived for twenty years in Drunkeen , one of the Saunderson family homes . |
| 22 | Although by now she had had twenty years in which to accustom herself to Bernard 's outbursts in private , and , in a curious way this display of his male aggression was also a powerful magnetic force for her , she was nonetheless acutely embarrassed by any public display of his temper . |
| 23 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 24 | I 'm not sure whether , you see I think the management time issue is very related to this , but I think it 's a separate issue , it 's a major concern I 've got at the moment that there is , I mean I know everybody 's got their own arguments but there has been no time at ever in the future that anybody who goes back further than twenty years in the service can recall , where York has had such a small amount of management time as it 's |
| 25 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 26 | I 've been an activist for over twenty years in this organization . |
| 27 | Bagshot had served for twenty years in the Royal Marines . |
| 28 | Henley , while maintaining its independence , has been associated with Brunel for over twenty years in the development and administration of post graduate management degrees . |
| 29 | Cromer had expected all his staff to speak Arabic fluently and Garvin , after twenty years in Egypt , spoke the language like a native . |
| 30 | Since then I have spent a solid twenty years in the service , with posts at the U. K. Delegation to N. A. T. O. , Bonn , Peking , and now Oslo … |