Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] for the [num ord] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think I 'm probably drawing too many parallels between the serious situation and the pop situation , but certainly no doubt that English pop for the last twenty years has been pre-eminent in Europe , and still is . |
| 2 | Regrettably this manuscript has been lost within the British Library for the last twenty years , and studies of it at present have to be based on photographic records . |
| 3 | Having been employed now for British Gas for the last twenty five years er , I 've got seventeen years of pensionable service , which has only just been negotiated through the G M B since nineteen eighty to nineteen ninety three and now it is probably one of the better pensions , company pension schemes , in the country . |
| 4 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |
| 5 | Well , Tony McCaffery , good luck for the next twenty years . |
| 6 | Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years . |
| 7 | However , he gained the confidence and personal friendship of Pope Pius IX and exercised considerable influence for the next twenty years . |
| 8 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 9 | Sumner was thus introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement , and became a keen member for the next twenty years . |
| 10 | It combined with a pattern of events that rocked local life for the next twenty years and reiterated a strong belief in Sussex 's particular backwardness . |