Example sentences of "twenty years ago it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty years ago it was expected that if you trained you would surely be accepted into the membership of your trade union and be given the chance to compete for the roles that were suitable . |
| 2 | At all events , when the innovative literary theory derived from structuralism began to arrive about twenty years ago it found actual or potential fissures in the form of life and it sought to enlarge and penetrate them . |
| 3 | Twenty years ago it cost only 3p to post a first-class letter , whereas today it costs 24p — an increase of 800 per cent . |
| 4 | Twenty years ago it had one only : the Lochcarron artery , and this is still the main supply route , now transformed into a fast highway . |
| 5 | Fifteen , maybe twenty years ago it might have been possible . |
| 6 | If this book had been written twenty years ago it would have been unlikely to contain any discussion of bias in the language of academic work . |