Example sentences of "twenty years [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the last twenty years a number of publications concerned with the education of visually handicapped children have given very prescriptive advice on the most suitable seating arrangements for classes which include visually handicapped children . |
| 2 | However , in the past twenty years a variety of new approaches has evolved , beyond clinics on the one hand and mental hospitals on the other , to provide a more easily accessible ‘ user-friendly ’ , informal ‘ open-door ’ facility . |
| 3 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 4 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 5 | we have n't had one for oh many what fifteen , twenty years a co er there used to be a couple of women used to come to sell rock . |
| 6 | But for twenty years a south hereford district council has tried to get them evicted . |
| 7 | It is unlike East London , where over the last ten or twenty years the heart has been torn out of manufacturing industry in the docks and with it has gone traditional working-class organisation . |
| 8 | George Headley and Learie Constantine were the giants of the early Test years who did most to establish the team ; Garfield Sobers was for twenty years the supreme all-rounder of the game 's history ; Clive Lloyd devised the concept of a quartet of pace bowlers who would carry all relentlessly before them . |
| 9 | Over the last twenty years the starkest examples of operations cancelled , lives put at danger and waiting lists increased have been the result of industrial disputes . |
| 10 | During the past twenty years the role of export education has been fulfilled by the Institute of Export without any assistance or recognition whatsoever . |
| 11 | Within twenty years the immense complexity of British power had been perfectly represented in the greatest station ever built in India , the remarkable Victoria Terminus in Bombay . |
| 12 | For twenty years the 16+ has been to educationalists what the Irish Question has been to politicians for somewhat longer : it has consumed enormous energy , made and destroyed reputations , absorbed and dissipated creativity and made most men and women with common sense as well as intelligence adopt the stance of peripheral critics . |
| 13 | Over a period of twenty years the British Medical Journal recorded several cases that required hospital treatment . |
| 14 | Over twenty years the two great polo dynasties had battled it out in the Argentine Open at Palermo . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Over the ensuing twenty years the last vestiges of a rural economy were erased , while the considerable physical presence of an industrial proletariat , much of it working in large plants , became increasingly apparent . |
| 17 | According to official sources , over the last twenty years the country has already lost nearly 80% of its icons or about 24 million pieces , some of great importance to the national heritage . |
| 18 | After twenty years the Dwarfs abandon the mines at Mount Silverspear to the Orcs . |
| 19 | For the next twenty years the number of unemployed never fell below a million . |
| 20 | At first the hedges were no more than double rows of seedlings protected by a rail on one side or both , but after twenty years the thorns had grown high enough to be cut and laid , a practice which William Marshall describes as the latest improvement in his Rural Economy of the Midland Counties in 1790 . |
| 21 | In the last twenty years the importance of migration has been reinforced by the decline in rates of natural increase ; now that births and deaths are almost in balance , migration is the crucial determinant of whether population grows or contracts even at the national level . |
| 22 | Pollen 's instruments in their final forms were in themselves significant scientific and technical achievements — the incorporation of a differential analyser in his gunnery computer ( known as the Argo clock ) , for example , anticipated by nearly twenty years the work in this important area of both D. R. Hartree [ q.v. ] and Vannevar Bush . |
| 23 | By almost twenty years the oldest . |
| 24 | In the past twenty years the planning , organization and equipment of order-maintenance has been steadily updated and centralized , so that the police now has the potential to mobilize thousands of riot-trained and equipped police officers . |
| 25 | In the past twenty years the population of this town has almost doubled and the number of cars using the roads has trebled , making that quote much much more topical . |
| 26 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |