Example sentences of "twenty years ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Go to bed wishing I could have bestowed an extra twenty years ' active life upon Bunuel and Jane Austen . |
| 2 | In 1983 the Home Secretary imposed restrictions on the release of persons serving life for murders of police- and prison-officers , terrorist killings , murder during robbery , and the sadistic or sexual murder of young children , fixing a minimum of twenty years ' imprisonment for these offenders . |
| 3 | For example , despite Odysseus ' twenty years ' absence from home , on his return neither he nor Penelope appear to have grown any older . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She is a married woman of intelligence and maturity with twenty years ' experience . |
| 6 | I would have done anything for Charlie , and was , in fact , even now sorting out twenty years ' worth of his possessions . |
| 7 | After twenty years ' exposure to religious scrutiny , if deemed worthy and untarnished , this votive tablet would be transferred to the Reclusiam itself . |
| 8 | The present book is the fruit of twenty years ' research and is an exhaustive catalogue of the families of silver makers who produced commemorative spoons for generations of prosperous West Country yeomen and their families , above all for births and christenings . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She pressed it with her tongue , as she had pressed hundreds , thousands now , over twenty years ' worth of these papery discs stamped with crosses , made by nuns . |
| 12 | Carrick reached that rank after twenty years ' service which included considerable experience in the intermediate rank of supervisor of excise at Forfar before being advanced to his collectorship . |
| 13 | After twenty years ' teaching at Goldsmiths ' College in South London , mostly as head of fine art , Jon Thompson has been headhunted by the Jan Van Eyck Academy in Maastricht . |
| 14 | The additional earnings-related components of the state pension is based on the best twenty years ' earnings , so those who are out of the labour market for substantial periods ( mainly women ) have little choice of which periods of earnings to take . |
| 15 | The Twenty Years ' Crisis was a sustained critique of the way in which utopian thought had dominated international relations in the inter-war years . |
| 16 | There was a staff of three Corporals , one Sergeant and the scarred Sergeant-Major who had interviewed me , all of whom were veterans of some twenty years ' service in the Legion , filling in their last years before retirement . |
| 17 | With the outbreak of twenty years ' war in 1793 , the price of materials and wages in the building trades both began to rise steadily . |
| 18 | The dissolution of the monasteries by the French in 1809 was the violent culmination of a twenty years ' campaign . |
| 19 | That contract was for ten albums , which , at Oldfield 's work rate , could amount to fifteen to twenty years ' work . |
| 20 | Otherwise judges are appointed from the ranks of barristers of at least ten or fifteen years ' standing and are likely to have had at least twenty years ' practice at the bar . |
| 21 | Finally , women could never receive the maximum compensation because of differential retirement ages , payments based on age , and the ceiling of twenty years ' maximum that counted towards payments . |
| 22 | Some limited home responsibilities protection was introduced in April 1978 in order to help women in this position , but in order to qualify for a full pension they still require twenty years ' worth of contributions or credits . |
| 23 | Twenty years ' worth . |
| 24 | In this work of at least twenty years ' duration Cregeen was encouraged and assisted by the Revd John Edward Harrison ( 1784–1858 ) , vicar of Jurby , whose hand has been detected in the preface and the opening paragraphs of the grammar . |
| 25 | In twenty years ' work on the Mesozoic Brachiopoda , I have found plenty of relationships , but few if any evolving lineages . |
| 26 | Twenty years ' celebration for exhibitions at the Heinz Gallery |
| 27 | This time bomb is ticking away , colleagues , and in about twenty years ' time , we 'll be back to where we were we 'll have a lot of people who 've got small pensions , based on their previous employment with a health authority or a local authority , British Gas or the electricity companies then they 've had to go out on the open market and they will be under-funded and have inadequate pension when they retire . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I would put pretty well everything into making sure that er that Virgin Atlantic is here in twenty years ' time . |
| 30 | 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 . |