Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [art] [adj] 20 " in BNC.
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| 1 | This brief has been fulfilled with distinction , and every three or four months for the past 20 years the office has produced an objective , well-documented , literate , and attractively presented booklet encapsulating the known facts about subjects ranging from suicide , rabies and heart disease , to the cost of running hospitals and what the public expects from the NHS , always adding a few percipient comments and conclusions of its own for good measure . |
| 2 | The rapid changes in the membership and electoral fortunes of Scots , Welsh , Quebecois and no doubt other nationalist parties of the past 20 years illustrate this instability . |
| 3 | Which is the antithesis of Jeremy [ Isaacs ] , who is a programme-maker at heart , one of the great programme-makers of the last 20 years . |
| 4 | Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations . |
| 5 | Experiments on animals in the last 20 years have revealed that there are several different types of memory ( for example , memory for places , or for events , or for movements ) , that each can be independently disturbed , and that each is primarily controlled by a different part of the brain . |
| 6 | It requires courage and support from sympathetic colleagues to admit that the things that have been happening in classrooms or schools over the past 20 years have been wrong , pigheaded or simply inefficient . |
| 7 | Anyone who studies academic standards in our schools over the past 20 years must recognise that there have been considerable improvements . |
| 8 | One of the reasons for this state of affairs is the publicity that has been given to the hills by him and numerous other writers of magazine articles and books over the past 20 or 30 years . |
| 9 | The fast-swimming Dall 's porpoise has been particularly hard hit in the North Pacific and hundreds of thousands of animals over the last 20 years have been entangled in the giant drift-nets of the salmon , squid , and tuna fisheries . |
| 10 | A better understanding of the normal physiology , developmental anatomy , and pathology of the prepuce could prevent the removal of thousands of normal foreskins over the next 20 years . |
| 11 | MORE than 200 children are believed to have been sexually assaulted and beaten by staff at council homes over the past 20 years . |
| 12 | WATER meters are to be compulsorily installed in nearly four million homes over the next 20 years , it was announced yesterday . |
| 13 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 14 | So to while away those lonely winter nights , we 've arranged ( with Virgin Vision ) for 90-minute videos of red Ben live in action to go to the senders of the first 20 correct entries . |
| 15 | Karsten Schubert shows an interesting collection — with mega-interesting prices — of rare catalogues and books by artists of the last 20 years |
| 16 | In one of our coldest winters for the past 20 years , the system has been operating successfully and flexibly . |
| 17 | The nettle-rash got somewhat better in time , but it continued to bother him at regular intervals for the next 20 years . |
| 18 | By making such groups irrelevant , the State can write off the progressive movements of the last 20 years . |
| 19 | Yorkshire 's winning of the B&H Cup in 1987 was achieved with performances of consistent excellence which represent one of the county 's most vigorous periods in the last 20 years . |
| 20 | A US Department of Energy report has predicted output to rise from 890 million tonnes to 1,240 million tonnes in the next 20 years . |
| 21 | Large numbers of them have been included in conservation areas over the past 20 years . |
| 22 | The USA had threatened to impose a 100 per cent retaliatory import tariff on some $165,000,000-worth of Japanese personal computers every year , unless Japan took action to implement the 1986 agreement ; it had , however , eventually agreed to give Japan another 18 months , until the end of 1992 , in which to build up US imports to the agreed 20 per cent market share . |
| 23 | Very much the same situation has obtained under Ministers of both Governments for the past 20 years — |
| 24 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 25 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 26 | Psychologists in the last 20 years have had to rediscover much of what was already known and practised by the 1860s . |
| 27 | World Travel Organisation data ( quoted in Pearce 1987 ) reflect a trebling of international tourist arrivals in the last 20 years , reaching 284 million in 1984 as compared with 93 million in 1963 . |
| 28 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 29 | With the vast expansion in library collections over the past 20 years , library professionals have had to deal with an ever increasing burden in the production and maintenance of library catalogues . |
| 30 | There have been many advances over the last 20 years , particularly in the subjects of settlement , technology and social and economic organisation . |