Example sentences of "[prep] twenty years of [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People are looking for something new , after twenty years of hamburger joints and pizza parlours . |
| 2 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 3 | This is not the place to outline these in detail but , to put it simply , in the late 1970s the record industry faced a ‘ crisis ’ ( a stagnation in record sales after twenty years of expansion ) brought on by two simultaneous developments : on the one hand , an economic recession which hit particularly hard the most important sector of the record buying market , working-class youth ; on the other hand , technological developments in the leisure industry which meant either new sorts of competition for people 's leisure resources ( home computers and video recorders become as significant in young people 's lives as record players , for instance ) or disrupted record companies ' profit-making routines ( home taping thus became the industry 's chief bogey ) . |
| 4 | Is then an MP , who must keep the hours of a street-walker ; who is understood to be — if the public is to be believed — either impotent or corrupt ; who spends the best years of his life listening to Ministers , speeches , and to the complaints of his constituents ; is he to receive as his only reward after twenty years of service a signed photograph of Jim Prior ? |
| 5 | In England and Wales the average proportion of each marriage cohort still without children after twenty years of marriage ( all ages at marriage together ) is between 10 and 15 per cent ( e.g. 1951 13 per cent , 1956 10 per cent ) . |
| 6 | Although the provision of public housing had been established as a principle in rural areas by 1939 — by itself no mean achievement when one looks back over the history of rural housing — the results of twenty years of legislation were a disappointment . |
| 7 | ample exterior , the product of twenty years of police work . |
| 8 | No major country house has faced a greater catalogue of danger and decay than Barlaston , with the combined problems of twenty years of rain cascading through the roof and repeated bouts of coal mining subsidence . |
| 9 | In twenty years of knitting , I 've found no reason to discard this principle . |
| 10 | Bolton had made it clear that Jack was not for sale , but Chapman , who in twenty years of football management rarely failed to get his man , was determined . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've never seen that in twenty years of football , ’ he said . |
| 12 | What do you consider were the gallery 's greatest successes in twenty years of business ? |
| 13 | The Clerk was to send a letter of apology to Mrs thanking her for twenty years of service and ask if she 'd reconsider the job . |
| 14 | In spite of the touches of mystification he employed in many autobiographical references scattered through twenty years of publishing , it is possible to detect the complicated temperament he had inherited . |