Example sentences of "in twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that certain lack at the heart of both desire and identification : what Carson actually finds in twenty years abroad is some oppressive sexual mores epitomized in the loveless fuck over the bonnet of a Chevy Impala . |
| 2 | I have dreamed that I came back here — in twenty years . |
| 3 | But the basic situation has not changed very much in twenty years . |
| 4 | ‘ However , ’ says David Baldock of the Institute for European Environment Policy , which has advised several governments on the issue , ‘ in twenty years ’ time five million people could be drinking water well over the 50 mg/litre limit . |
| 5 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 6 | In twenty years ' time they will remember their history teacher : his mannerisms , his irony and self-deprecating asides , his friendly interest in each of them . |
| 7 | If an overweight man in his fifties who is a heavy smoker , has a family history of heart disease and is working in a stressful job were to decide to ‘ get fit ’ and invite a colleague for a game of squash for the first time in twenty years , he would be doing just about the best he could to give himself a heart attack . |
| 8 | It was his first visit to Ireland in twenty years . |
| 9 | The Daily Mail proudly stated ‘ The Mighty ZETA : Limitless Fuel for Millions of Years ’ , the Daily Telegraph was only slightly more reticent : ‘ Hydrogen power 90 per cent certain ; Energy from sea in twenty years ; Machine will surpass heat of Sun ’ , and on television one scientist said ‘ This discovery is greater than the Russian Sputnik . ’ |
| 10 | In twenty years of knitting , I 've found no reason to discard this principle . |
| 11 | In twenty years , thirty , you may return ; with tales to tell . |
| 12 | How long ago it seemed since Sergeant Huzzi Rork had told Lexandro that he might return home again in twenty years , in thirty years , if the Fists so wished . |
| 13 | If not , if the public decides against it , if they are unmoved by it , then the Glass will be broken and people will stop talking about it , which could quite easily happen in twenty years or ten years , or even sooner . |
| 14 | This is the most significant collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century French silver to appear at auction in twenty years . |
| 15 | Their apprehensions were summed up by the New York Age : ‘ As a black champion , he has given the Negro more trouble by his scandals than he did in twenty years as a black tramp ’ ( quoted by Gillmore , 1975 , p.99 ) . |
| 16 | Similarly , in twenty years ' time , the threat of the new media may prove to be no more than a means for liberating the viewer from the duopoly 's straightjacket . |
| 17 | For example , knowing how may people aged between fifty and sixty are alive today , together with knowledge about the death-rate of this age group and their state of health , enables the state to plan the number of places that may be needed in residential homes for the elderly in twenty years ' time , as well as the level of home help provision that will be necessary . |
| 18 | What do you consider were the gallery 's greatest successes in twenty years of business ? |
| 19 | Imagine Robert Redford with a blue face in twenty years ’ time . ’ |
| 20 | How many Masai will be doing this in twenty years ’ time ? |
| 21 | I also wonder how many Fairfaxes will be left in twenty years . |
| 22 | If he had not returned in twenty years his son , Don Benedetto , should inherit his lands and administer his fortune in the normal way . |
| 23 | In twenty years ' work on the Mesozoic Brachiopoda , I have found plenty of relationships , but few if any evolving lineages . |
| 24 | The cheese presses went into use for the first time in twenty years , Jem attended Bodmin market with butter and lard and eggs to sell once a fortnight , and , with George Langley 's help , a little light trap came , of varnished wood , which Murphy , now beaten out of surprise and disapproval , taught Alexandra to drive with a helpful bay mare between the shafts . |
| 25 | Now I do n't believe that this issue has been aired wide enough it 's understood by a lot of people what the problems are going to be these problems are n't gon na occur in the next ten years , they will happen in twenty years ' time . |
| 26 | I would put pretty well everything into making sure that er that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time . |
| 27 | As I said at the beginning I love a challenge and I would put pretty well everything into making sure that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time . |
| 28 | A Jewish lesbian who breaks the Sabbath and most of the Commandments , eats forbidden food and has n't put foot into a synagogue in twenty years … ’ |
| 29 | I looked around me with amazement at the change effected in twenty years ; so great that this place may now probably be reckoned with justice , the first manufacturing town in the world . |
| 30 | At one time it looked like everything we 'd done in twenty years was going to be spread out on the table — and that included sating up a group to destabilise our closest ally if it got needed . |