Example sentences of "twenty years they " in BNC.

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1 For some twenty years they had taken opposite sides , reliably and predictably , on all the resounding issues of religion and state .
2 More distressingly , we discovered that the Aru islands and the Greater Bird of Paradise were no longer on their trading routes and that for the last twenty years they had been pursuing the shorter and more profitable triangular passage between Celebes , Java and Borneo .
3 The forestry commission were once regarded as the covering the country with grand conifers but in the last twenty years they have been changing their ways , they now go half way to square yard their land .
4 In the twenty years they 've been here , they 've clearly thrived .
5 If we look into the history of Iraq I do n't think anybody can remember in the past twenty years they have contributed anything , neither in the terms of world economy , neither in the world of world peace , or any humanitarian
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