Example sentences of "two decades [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet over the past two decades we have seen reductions , in almost all countries surveyed , from eight to seven and sometimes even to six year primary cycles . |
| 2 | For more than two decades he has led BMW , building it up into one of the industry 's most respected and successful marques . |
| 3 | For the next two decades he made a sort of living finding bits and pieces of editing and translation work . |
| 4 | Over the next two decades it was rebuilt to include many fine Georgian houses and in 1725 the then humble parsonage was given this handsome new front by an unknown architect . |
| 5 | For much of the past two decades it was Square City , the quaint , eccentric and often decidedly sick man of rock . |
| 6 | Because trying to meet this criterion has occupied so much of my research time in the past two decades it is worth spelling out again that to adopt a reductionist methodology in research strategy — that is , to try to stabilize the world that one is studying by manipulating one variable at a time , holding everything else as constant as possible — is generally the only way to do experiments from which one can draw clear conclusions . |