Example sentences of "[noun sg] for the [num ord] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her father has been an elder of the kirk for the last twenty years . |
| 2 | He was a lawyer who had not seen the Shah for the last twenty years . |
| 3 | Well , Tony McCaffery , good luck for the next twenty years . |
| 4 | Went through to Russell and certainly a good overlap from Lawrence his score is eight runs , so a hundred and twenty seven for four and now describing play for the next twenty minutes we 've got John Adnew . |
| 5 | It seems to differ little if at all from the standard idea of the mainstream in force for the last twenty or thirty years . |
| 6 | , Henry ( 1858–1913 ) , socialist and journalist , was born 30 January 1858 in Hungerford , Berkshire , the son of a village blacksmith , who was an invalid for the last twenty years of his life , and his wife , the daughter of an agricultural labourer . |
| 7 | However , he gained the confidence and personal friendship of Pope Pius IX and exercised considerable influence for the next twenty years . |
| 8 | In the modern era , those three must be bracketed together : they , with Piquet — who , despite his achievements , is rarely mentioned in the same company — have totally dominated the sport for the last twenty years . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ I 've been considering how best to answer that question for the last twenty minutes . |
| 10 | As clerk to the local Parish Council I should like to point out that Nether Wyresdale Parish Council have been asking for a footpath along this stretch of highway for the last twenty years . |
| 11 | Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years . |
| 12 | For Cranmer , who headed the party of Reform for the next twenty years , the task seemed hardly begun . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They shifted the responsibility for provision for sickness absence for the first twenty eight weeks from the national insurance scheme to a statutory sick pay scheme to be run by employers . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | At Sussex University , he met Gail Rebuck , who would figure largely in his life for the next twenty years . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sumner was thus introduced to the Arts and Crafts Movement , and became a keen member for the next twenty years . |
| 20 | ‘ But she has been caged inside the Grail Castle for the last twenty years . ’ |