Example sentences of "[prep] twenty years [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years in the force Hawken thought that he knew all there was to be known about the eccentricities of senior officers but he was wrong . |
| 2 | Had it been less well done , someone as prickly and paranoid as Alex Household would have bridled , would have pointed out that to lose a part at the beginning of one 's career was rather different from losing it after twenty years in the business , would have made some bitter retort . |
| 3 | We have seen that during a period of twenty years between the wars , town planning in Britain consolidated its position in local authority practice , consultant advocacy and professional solidarity , though little was achieved by way of addition to intellectual content or method . |
| 4 | Generous discounts were available : 33 per cent off the market value for tenants of three years ' standing , rising by 1 per cent a year up to a maximum of 50 per cent after a total of twenty years as a tenant . |
| 5 | If the application is successful , a patent will be granted for four years initially and may be renewed , annually , up to a maximum of twenty years from the date the application is filed ( the priority date ) . |
| 6 | The community continued for twenty years under the leadership of his brother John after Nicholas 's death , with an interruption during the Civil War . |
| 7 | He lived for twenty years with the family as a lodger with meals included : ‘ he had a home with us , all those years . ’ |
| 8 | The lease negotiated was for twenty years at a rental of £20,000 subject to possible increases up to a maximum of £22,000 . |