Example sentences of "for twenty years " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women , Art and Society is a synthesis of work that has been progressing for twenty years about women and the visual arts . |
| 2 | For one thing , I was extremely lucky in that the winter during which I was homeless was apparently the mildest this country has had for twenty years ( though it was quite cold enough for me ) and that was by no means the only remarkable piece of good fortune that I had . |
| 3 | For twenty years from 1961 Ahidjo had relative success in maintaining stability in Cameroun , and by the late 1970s the country was experiencing high rates of growth . |
| 4 | Consequently , relations between African countries and international companies were for twenty years characterized by a battle to take some degree of national control . |
| 5 | Harry Wood , a professional for twenty years with Surrey and along with Abel one of three who went ‘ on strike ’ in 1896 demanding a £20 match fee to play the Australians , left the game a bitter man . |
| 6 | Thereafter Bobby Locke of South Africa and Peter Thomson of Australia dominated the British professional game alongside American entrants for the Open for twenty years after the Second World War . |
| 7 | They had lived in Holland for twenty years and had been much impressed by Dutch conversions of barns into dwellings which tend to be more simple , ‘ scrubbed ’ and ‘ puritanical ’ than the often over-elaborate treatment that is applied to British projects . |
| 8 | As she took her wedding vows , Diana was saying goodbye to the life that she had taken for granted for twenty years . |
| 9 | For twenty years , in fact , he was the most active and admired humanist in the world . |
| 10 | Adkin New Homes Department has been established for twenty years , servicing a wide selection of large and small developments throughout Oxfordshire on behalf of our builder clients . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For twenty years , while he turned the porn shop of sports into international theatre , attention was paid in a way it never was before or has been since . |
| 13 | He ends up serving Laban for twenty years , in which time he has his wages changed ten times ( and that does not mean continually increased , either ) . |
| 14 | About this time a detailed correspondence , lasting for twenty years , started between Sloane and Ray . |
| 15 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 16 | For twenty years his widowed mother had kept a small shop in a St Helens slum , only accepting an occasional small amount of money and putting off other help with ‘ the same naive reply : ‘ It 's very good of you , dear lad , and I appreciate it , but as long as I can manage it , I shall prefer to have my feet under my own fender . ’ |
| 17 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ There is a danger in any organisation that has been going for twenty years of attracting a clique and closing the doors on others . |
| 19 | ‘ Miss Kenton ’ is properly speaking ‘ Mrs Benn and has been for twenty years . |
| 20 | Most of them , protected by their voluntary-aided status , resisted for twenty years and more all attempts to change their fiercely academic character or to entangle them in vague schemes of amalgamation or co-operation with secondary modern schools . |
| 21 | The Robbins ‘ principle ’ , not to be seriously challenged for twenty years , was a simple one : every qualified school-leaver ( qualified , that is , in terms of his A-level passes ) who wished to enter higher education was entitled to a place . |
| 22 | Not like it is now ; it 's not rained for twenty years . ’ |
| 23 | The Belle continued in service for twenty years until 1978 , when it was withdrawn as being uneconomic to rewire to modern standards . |
| 24 | For twenty years I had trained my mind that when not preoccupied with washing up , searching the window frames for rotting wood or examining my bank statements , it was to work on plots , characters and the general creation of fiction . |
| 25 | Hope also quarrelled with the vicar , and in 1854 left , not to return to the church for twenty years . |
| 26 | Even though his father had been dead for twenty years , she talked about him as if he were still alive . |
| 27 | ‘ The sort I could really have gone for twenty years ago . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I published the results in a book called Manwatching and for twenty years continued my investigations into that bizarre species Homo sapiens . |
| 30 | ‘ For twenty years ? |