Example sentences of "[noun pl] for the [num ord] twenty " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such self-disgust appeared to have physical causes or manifestations : a pattern that was to repeat itself at irregular intervals for the next twenty years . |
| 2 | Grace had appeared in supporting roles in West End productions for the last twenty years and he knew she would be word-perfect when she felt it necessary . |
| 3 | The necessary bond issue to restrain liquidity will commit the government to paying high rates on these bonds for the next twenty years or so . |
| 4 | I work out the odds against the cargo being lost , based on weather reports and piracy records for the last twenty years , then I add a bit , then you pay me some money based on those odds — ’ |
| 5 | The second symptom of change following his long residence at Lyons is this : in later years , but never earlier , Anselm occasionally used the phrase Libertas Ecclesiae , of which Hugh and Gregory VII had been the chief advocates for the last twenty years . |