Example sentences of "twenty [noun pl] ago [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Twenty years ago London Road was a busy , thriving commercial centre thronged with shoppers . |
2 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
3 | Twenty years ago Estelle Fuchs discussed the implications of the following statement made by an enthusiastic teacher in an urban school : |
4 | Twenty years ago lager accounted for less than 10 per cent of total beer sales . |
5 | Twenty years ago history textbooks did consist principally of " text " . |
6 | Twenty years ago Australians rejected calls for a republic . |
7 | About twenty years ago department stores in Tokyo started to make parts of their buildings into exhibition spaces and called them museums . |
8 | TWENTY YEARS ago Oldfield 's epic original ‘ Tubular Bells ’ was a teenage obsession of mine , a soundtrack to my fevered adolescent imagination , its sweeping vistas providing a place of escape . |
9 | Twenty years ago people argued about definitions but they did not really disagree about a system of values which centred the individual 's worth in a family context and saw counselling as the social worker 's core skill . |
10 | For example , twenty years ago Coeliac Disease ( intolerance to wheat ) was an illness which began during infancy or early childhood in almost 100% of cases . |